Re: Second monitor doesn't quite work

2023-04-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-04-21 13:01:29 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I've found the details of the issue I got when I had no xorg.conf > file (that was in May 2020, thus 3 years ago) and 3 connected outputs > (laptop screen + 2 external monitors). At boot, the driver randomly > chose 2 of them. But when I logged

Re: Second monitor doesn't quite work

2023-04-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-04-21 10:01:53 +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Thursday, 20 Apr 2023 at 14:34, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > In my case, an empty xorg.conf doesn't work with my 3-monitor setup. > > The issue is that the Nvidia driver (contrary to nouveau?) doesn't > > work with 3 monitors, so one of them cann

Re: Second monitor doesn't quite work

2023-04-21 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 20 Apr 2023 at 14:34, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > In my case, an empty xorg.conf doesn't work with my 3-monitor setup. > The issue is that the Nvidia driver (contrary to nouveau?) doesn't > work with 3 monitors, so one of them cannot be used, but when the > X server is restarted (e.g. whe

Re: Second monitor doesn't quite work

2023-04-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-04-20 11:56:17 +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Wednesday, 19 Apr 2023 at 23:34, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Any idea why the second monitor is sort of there but not quite? Below is > >> a copy of the xorg.conf generated by the Nvidia setup utility. > > > > I have no experience with multi-mo

Re: Second monitor doesn't quite work

2023-04-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-04-19 19:43:01 -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Device0" > Monitor"Monitor0" > DefaultDepth24 > Option "Stereo" "0" > Option "metamodes" "HDMI-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0" > Opt

Re: Second monitor doesn't quite work

2023-04-20 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Wednesday, 19 Apr 2023 at 23:34, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Any idea why the second monitor is sort of there but not quite? Below is >> a copy of the xorg.conf generated by the Nvidia setup utility. > > I have no experience with multi-monitor setups on nVidia, but the last > time I used a non-emp

Re: Second monitor doesn't quite work

2023-04-19 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:43:01 -0700 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Any idea why the second monitor is sort of there but not quite? > Below is a copy of the xorg.conf generated by the Nvidia setup > utility. You might benefit from arandr. It lets you set up the monitors as you see fit, then it will save a

Re: Second monitor doesn't quite work

2023-04-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Any idea why the second monitor is sort of there but not quite? Below is > a copy of the xorg.conf generated by the Nvidia setup utility. I have no experience with multi-monitor setups on nVidia, but the last time I used a non-empty `xorg.conf` was many years ago, so I suggest you try to just r

Second monitor doesn't quite work

2023-04-19 Thread Charlie Gibbs
Last week I replaced my video card. The old one, made by Zotac, contains the Nvidia GT630 chip set. It has two DVI outputs, which I used to feed two monitors: a BenQ GL2760 and my trusty old Sharp LL-T19D1-B. The new card (ASUS with the GT730 chip set) has only one DVI output, but also has H