[Trisquel-users] Nouveau and dual-monitor setup in Trisquel 7 (help)

2015-06-07 Thread lycopene
Hi, I'm totally new to Trisquel, and having a hell of a time trying to figure  
out the display settings. Despite working with a practically-clean install  
(installed from disk, ran updates, rebooted a few times with no problems),  
Nouveau isn't working in the slightest.


The GPU is an nVidia GTX 750 Ti, which the system seems to recognize  
according to lspci:


>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce  
GTX 750 Ti] [10de:1380] (rev a2)


I made sure the 'xserver-xorg-video-nouveau' package was installed though  
Synaptic, then edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf to include:


>Section "Device"
>Identifier "nvidia"
>Driver "nouveau"
>EndSection

However, even after rebooting, that didn't work, and I can still only use a  
single display (as a 'Built-in Display' in 1024x768).


Additionally, a peek into the Xorg.0.log file includes the line:

>(II) NOUVEAU driver Date:   Thu Nov 7 14:56:48 2013 +1000

And further down, shows that it loaded the generic VESA driver instead. That  
seems to indicate that it's trying to use an old version that doesn't support  
the 750 Ti, even though the latest version was installed through Synaptic.


Ideally, of course, I'd like to use both displays at their native  
resolutions. Searches for old topics on this matter haven't been very  
helpful; it seems that most people have no trouble with this, and the above  
steps work even if they do. What could I be missing?


(Also, apologies for the lack of formatting, but '[code][/code]' doesn't seem  
to work and I can't guess what the actual tags are.)


Re: [Trisquel-users] Nouveau and dual-monitor setup in Trisquel 7 (help)

2015-06-07 Thread danigaritarojas
> "(Also, apologies for the lack of formatting, but '[code][/code]' doesn't  
seem to work and I can't guess what the actual tags are.)"


You can use:

Your code here


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Re: [Trisquel-users] Nouveau and dual-monitor setup in Trisquel 7 (help)

2015-06-08 Thread greatgnu

can't help you with nvidia. welcome to the triskello community though!