[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 813343] Re: nvidia drivers, second monitor covered by black

2011-11-04 Thread Axel Pospischil
Hi Radu, could you please give us a little bit more information about you system and settings (xubuntu version, program version of nvidia, xorg.conf, lightdm.log, xorg.logs, ...). Its a little bit hard to see where your problem is, without these fact ;) -- You received this bug notification

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 813343] Re: nvidia drivers, second monitor covered by black

2011-11-04 Thread Axel Pospischil
Could you please open a console do the following: Start nvidia-settings, try to configure, then nvidia-settings freezes. Then go into your console an do (you can copy and paste the following): cd ~/Desktop mkdir reports cd reports sudo cp /var/log/lightdm/* sudo apport-bug

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 813343] Re: nvidia drivers, second monitor covered by black

2011-11-04 Thread Axel Pospischil
Hi Radu, thanks for sending the information. As far as I can see there is only one thing that i don't understand in the xorg.log, when you try to add the second monitor.: [ 310.430] (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode DFP-0:NULL,DFP-1:1920x1080@1920x1080+0+0 mine looks like this when attaching a

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 813343] Re: nvidia drivers, second monitor covered by black

2011-11-04 Thread Axel Pospischil
Forgot to mention: Point 1: you should probably use the jockey-gtk tool to install nvidia after the uninstallation procedure and reboot!!! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in Ubuntu.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 813343] Re: nvidia drivers, second monitor covered by black

2011-11-04 Thread Axel Pospischil
DFP-1 and DFP-2 are external This is a problem, because as far as I know Twin-view (as the name implies) is for dualmonitor-view only! What you need is xinerama and this is a complete different thing - and would be another bug report as well. This bug handles the case, where people try to

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 813343] Re: nvidia drivers, second monitor covered by black

2011-11-04 Thread Axel Pospischil
@Christophe and @Radu: I really suggest opening a new, separate bug for this special case with two external monitors, primary one switched off. @Christophe: is it possible to use your old xorg.conf (11.04) with 11.10 (without nvidia-settings)? Or save the running configuration to an xorg.file

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 813343] Re: nvidia drivers, second monitor covered by black

2011-10-31 Thread Axel Pospischil
@Psypher Just an idea: do you have an ~/.config/monitors.xml file? See http://askubuntu.com/questions/23869/could-not-apply-the-stored- configuration-for-the-monitor -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 813343] Re: nvidia drivers, second monitor covered by black

2011-10-24 Thread Axel Pospischil
Hi psypher, as said in #30 I don't write to the xorg-file wiht nvidia settings (what one might do), only use a minimal. In very very old days, some monitors need to have appropriate modelines: see https://wiki.blue-it.org/Xserver_Issues#Modline_generator @#35: Did you install the package

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 813343] Re: nvidia drivers, second monitor covered by black

2011-10-18 Thread Axel Pospischil
OK - just for a workaround: if Unity(3D) is not working. Are you able to use unity2d? It works (almost) perfectly on my different twinview workplaces. That's what I am doing since I have massive performance issues on my 128MB nvidia quadro NVS140M card - which is older, but normally should be not

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 813343] Re: nvidia drivers, second monitor covered by black

2011-10-15 Thread Axel Pospischil
Hi psypher, my desktop looked exactly the same when using supe-s as shown in your screenshot. What i did: booted into recovery mode and removed nvidia-current AND nvidia-settings: apt-get remove --purge nvidia-current nvidia-settings Then I searched for ALL occurences of

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 840462] Re: No Dualscreen-Twinview possible after Upgrade to nvidia-current 280.13

2011-10-14 Thread Axel Pospischil
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 813343 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/813343 Hello Eric, what you see is unity crashing ... this should be fixed by the most recent updates. Did you really update your system? Went your nvidia update correct (dkms)? Did you read bug #813343? -- You

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 813343] Re: nvidia drivers, second monitor covered by black

2011-10-07 Thread Axel Pospischil
I can see some artifacts when changing the screen (see video). This is under unity, the same applies for unity 2d. I don't see these when using e.g. xfce (probably things only are faster and therefore artifacts not visible?). linux-image-3.0.0-12-generic - 3.0.0-12.19 nvidia-cg-toolkit -

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 813343] Re: nvidia drivers, second monitor covered by black

2011-10-07 Thread Axel Pospischil
** Attachment removed: Transition via Twinview https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/813343/+attachment/2525012/+files/out2.ogv ** Attachment added: Transition video https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/813343/+attachment/2525070/+files/out2.mov -- You

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 813343] Re: nvidia drivers, second monitor covered by black

2011-10-07 Thread Axel Pospischil
** Attachment added: xorg.conf https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/813343/+attachment/2525280/+files/xorg.conf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in Ubuntu.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 813343] Re: nvidia drivers, second monitor covered by black

2011-09-22 Thread Axel Pospischil
nvidia-common 1:0.2.35 nvidia-current 280.13-0ubuntu3 nvidia-settings280.13-0ubuntu2 xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7 unity 4.16.0-0ubuntu2 unity-2d 4.8.0-0ubuntu unity-common 4.16.0-0ubuntu2 Note: nvidia-settings was gone/not working for some reasons. So I had to reinstall it (apt-get install

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 813343] Re: nvidia drivers, second monitor covered by black

2011-09-14 Thread Axel Pospischil
Hi Jay, 1. For more information: did you read this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-settings/+bug/840462 ? 2. Did you read #12 ? Could you be a little bit more declarative why you changed this to invalid and suspect this is a bug in Nvidia-Twinview, why not Compiz or

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 840462] Re: No Dualscreen-Twinview possible after Upgrade to nvidia-current 280.13

2011-09-09 Thread Axel Pospischil
Hello out there, some news about this: 1. __Tried nvidia driver from nvidia download:__ Yesterday I gave the subject another try uninstalled all nvidia-current/settings, downloaded the original nvidia 280.13 driver from the nvidia download page, compiled an installed it. The tool creates

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 840462] Re: No Dualscreen-Twinview possible after Upgrade to nvidia-current 280.13

2011-09-09 Thread Axel Pospischil
** Attachment added: Xorg old - this was the crashed unity 3D session https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-settings/+bug/840462/+attachment/2377899/+files/Xorg.0.log.old -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 840462] Re: No Dualscreen-Twinview possible after Upgrade to nvidia-current 280.13

2011-09-09 Thread Axel Pospischil
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 813343 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/813343 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 813343 nvidia drivers, second monitor covered by black -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 840462] Re: No Dualscreen-Twinview possible after Upgrade to nvidia-current 280.13

2011-09-09 Thread Axel Pospischil
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 813343 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/813343 ** Also affects: nvidia-drivers-ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: unity Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 840462] Re: No Dualscreen-Twinview possible after Upgrade to nvidia-current 280.13

2011-09-07 Thread Axel Pospischil
Yesterday evening I installed a fresh ubuntu 11.04 beta1 on an __external usb drive__ for testing purpose: - ligthdm works only with nouveau - switching to nvidia-current bring up problems discribed above - unity2d works, gnome-shell works I tried to move all /etc/lightdm and

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 840462] Re: No Dualscreen-Twinview possible after Upgrade to nvidia-current 280.13

2011-09-07 Thread Axel Pospischil
On my machine tody I installed the latest nvidia-current and -settings version 275 from the ubuntu repositories. I had to build an install them manually via dkms. dkms install -m nvidia-current --all Using minimal xorg.conf: Section Device Identifier Default Device

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 840462] Re: No Dualscreen-Twinview possible after Upgrade to nvidia-current 280.13

2011-09-06 Thread Axel Pospischil
Update: The bug seams to be a problem with Unity 3D. Using Unity 2D or Gnome Shell everything works fine: can use nvidia- settings to change, add, remove monitors on the fly. Also the use of disper is possible. Addendum: If I play arround with nvidia-settings (under Unity 3d) I can get

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 840462] Re: No Dualscreen-Twinview possible after Upgrade to nvidia-current 280.13

2011-09-04 Thread Axel Pospischil
Forgot to mention: During the installation process, i had been asked which manager to use. I'd chosen lightdm. That left me with an unusable system, because the xserver went into an infinite loop. Only if i switch to use gdm (dpkg-reconfigure lightdm), xserver starts. -- You received this bug

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 840462] [NEW] No Dualscreen-Twinview possible after Upgrade to nvidia-current 280.13

2011-09-03 Thread Axel Pospischil
Public bug reported: Hello, yesterday i did an upgrade from natty to oneiric. Now twinview with nvidia-settings is not possible any more. - Oneiric 11.10 AMD 64 / Unity - Nvidia 280.13 - Kernel 3.0.0-9-generic - Lenovo T61, 15,4 Zoll 1650x1050, Nvidia Quadro NVS 140 -

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 840462] Re: No Dualscreen-Twinview possible after Upgrade to nvidia-current 280.13

2011-09-03 Thread Axel Pospischil
** Attachment added: Screenshots https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/840462/+attachment/2349405/+files/Screenshots.zip -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-settings in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/840462 Title: No

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 840462] Re: No Dualscreen-Twinview possible after Upgrade to nvidia-current 280.13

2011-09-03 Thread Axel Pospischil
I could temporaryly solve the problem. I used nvidia-settings to save the configuration into an xorg.conf and rebooted the system. I get three (!) error reports, that the given configuration could not be applied (indeed, it did!). I tested if, on the fly changing of the configuration is possible

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 840462] Re: No Dualscreen-Twinview possible after Upgrade to nvidia-current 280.13

2011-09-03 Thread Axel Pospischil
Forgot to mention that I formerly used nvidia-current v. 270x from oneiric and kernel 3.x from oneiric under natty which worked without any problems. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-settings in Ubuntu.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 840462] Re: No Dualscreen-Twinview possible after Upgrade to nvidia-current 280.13

2011-09-03 Thread Axel Pospischil
Background picture copyright: http://www.7themez.com/2009/12/best-of- national-geographic-2009.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-settings in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/840462 Title: No

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 403037] Re: [i830] xorg hang on i830 video driver 2.8.0

2009-10-10 Thread Axel Pospischil
As of update of today evening (ubuntu beta) - xserver-xorg-video-int 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu1 - kernel 2.6.31-13-generic - i830M Chipset (Thinkpad R31) and using an empty xorg.conf the system boots now without problems into the graphical user interface. Using i915.modset=0 does not deliver kernel

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 403037] Re: [i830] xorg hang on i830 video driver 2.8.0

2009-10-02 Thread Axel Pospischil
No change in Karmic Beta. -- [i830] xorg hang on i830 video driver 2.8.0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/403037 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is the registrant for xf86-video-intel. ___ Mailing list:

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 403037] Re: [i830] xorg hang on i830 video driver 2.8.0

2009-09-20 Thread Axel Pospischil
After a day trying again, the PC locks up again with black screen before login like Timothy wrote. I tried booting with the i915.modset=0 kernel parameter and the system went through the login screnn, even from the live cd. The only strange thing ist that the boot process stats Unknown boot

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 403037] Re: [i830] xorg hang on i830 video driver 2.8.0

2009-09-18 Thread Axel Pospischil
Hi, i like to add, that running Alpha 6 as of today (18/9/2009) is running fine on my Thinkpad R31/i830. This is without (!) nomodset. I have no problems with hanging mouse cursor, total system hang or else any more but, top gives me: Tasks: 142 total, 3 running, 139 sleeping, 0 stopped,

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 403037] Re: [i830] xorg hang on i830 video driver 2.8.0

2009-09-18 Thread Axel Pospischil
Hi, now I tested deaktivating my Xorg.conf !!! I got a better result: CPU is only about 80-90% CPU usage (intel PIII 1 GHz) when starting e.g. firefox. It goes down to appr. 15% in normal usage after appr. half a minute. That is not acceptable - but system works ;) All in all performance is

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 394422] Re: [i830] KMS karmic black screen

2009-07-22 Thread Axel Pospischil
Hello together all i830 fans, I own the same notebook as Otto (IBM Thinkpad R31) with the same graphics chipset. So lspci -vv is the same as above (proved that). Unfortunately __ after todays update __ of the system it __ locks __ 1. either into black screen (without nomodeset) and or 2. after