Fedora 10, KDE4 - dual monitors
Hi All; I've had several issues with my new laptop Fedora 10 per the nvidia video card so I eventually ended up with a config where I've removed kmod-nvidia (I had tried the driver from the nvidia site as well) and I have an xorg.conf file that specifies a 'vesa' driver. This allows me to have true 1920x1200 resolution but I cannot get dual monitors to work - I cannot even plug in an external monitor and toggle to/from it as the only display via Fn-F8 (this has worked with past laptops running KDE 3.x) So, my question is, how do I go about setting up dual monitors ? Does this require that I go back to the kmod-nvidia driver or can I pull it off via the current 'vesa' driver? Note that if I dont have an xorg.conf file then I get a config where the system reports that it's running at 1920x1200 but in reality it's more like 1280x800. This was the main issue with the kmod-nvidia driver back in December before I removed it. an lspci shows this: lspci | grep -i nvidia 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 061e (rev a2) and my xorg.conf file looks like this: $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf # Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display Section ServerLayout Identifier single head configuration Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files ModulePath /usr/lib64/xorg/modules EndSection Section ServerFlags Option AIGLX on EndSection Section InputDevice # generated from default Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/input/mice Option Emulate3Buttons no Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section InputDevice # keyboard added by rhpxl Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc105+inet Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 ModelNameLCD Panel 1920x1200 HorizSync31.5 - 74.5 VertRefresh 56.0 - 65.0 Option dpms EndSection Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver vesa EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Videocard0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth 24 Option AddARGBGLXVisuals True SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24
Re: Fedora 10, KDE4 - dual monitors
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 08:29 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi All; I've had several issues with my new laptop Fedora 10 per the nvidia video card so I eventually ended up with a config where I've removed kmod-nvidia (I had tried the driver from the nvidia site as well) and I have an xorg.conf file that specifies a 'vesa' driver. This allows me to have true 1920x1200 resolution but I cannot get dual monitors to work - I cannot even plug in an external monitor and toggle to/from it as the only display via Fn-F8 (this has worked with past laptops running KDE 3.x) So, my question is, how do I go about setting up dual monitors ? Does this require that I go back to the kmod-nvidia driver or can I pull it off via the current 'vesa' driver? Note that if I dont have an xorg.conf file then I get a config where the system reports that it's running at 1920x1200 but in reality it's more like 1280x800. This was the main issue with the kmod-nvidia driver back in December before I removed it. an lspci shows this: lspci | grep -i nvidia 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 061e (rev a2) and my xorg.conf file looks like this: $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf # Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display Section ServerLayout Identifier single head configuration Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files ModulePath /usr/lib64/xorg/modules EndSection Section ServerFlags Option AIGLX on EndSection Section InputDevice # generated from default Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/input/mice Option Emulate3Buttons no Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section InputDevice # keyboard added by rhpxl Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd Option XkbModel pc105+inet Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 ModelNameLCD Panel 1920x1200 HorizSync31.5 - 74.5 VertRefresh 56.0 - 65.0 Option dpms EndSection Section Device Identifier Videocard0 Driver vesa EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Videocard0
