alan wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Jonathan Berry wrote:
On 1/11/06, JT Moree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here's a question... How do I control which monitor is
primary? I want the laptop lcd to be primary, but so
far haven't figured that out.
depends on what you mean by primary. You can change the order of the
devices in some configs but that probably wont do anything and can
always change the leftOf, rightOf, clone etc. settings.
In reality the CRT always becomes the primary display when it is plugged
in. That's hardcoded in the NVIDIA driver.
Huh? Are you sure? It is not this way for the Windows driver at
least, I know that much. The default there is to have the LCD be the
primary monitor. I have not played with dual displays on Linux,
though.
I have and it does not work that way.
First of all, it helps to have everything plugged in when you start the
machine. This is because the chipset uses that physical connection to
figure out which of the outputs it is using. (svga, s-video, media
connector, etc.)
Use fn-f4 to direct the output to the various devices. First time will be
external output only, then dual output. (In my experience, these need to
be done before the X server starts.) It does not require extra settings
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
For twinview, the CRT is always the primary right now.
For non-twinview, I'm running nVidia's 1.0.7676 drivers and if I recall
what I did last week (don't have the external CRT handy right now) you
only had to restart the X server with the CRT attached or un-attached
for it to pick up what to do on fn-f4. I think prior to that version
you did have to have everything plugged in at boot time. In fact (I'll
check later), you might not even have to restart the X server at all;
the driver might detect the CRT when the hot key is pressed.
Ken
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