On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Graham Smith <myotis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Following on from my new monitor thread, I ended up with a Viewsonic > VG2227WM 22" Monitor. I know this wasn't mentioned in that thread, but for > various reasons that is what I ended up with. And, as suggested, I also > replaced my Matrox card (new graphics card is an ASUS geforce EN210 Silent) > The Viewsonic is now my primary monitor (working well ) and I am trying to > use a Belinia monitor as a second screen. > Ubuntu (10.10) seems to disable this second screen by default, as it stays > dead on boot up, and is listed in the NVIDIA settings GUI as "disabled" . > I have enabled the Belinia, it was already set up as sitting on the left of > the Viewsonic, checked TWINVIEW, and ticked the box on the Viewsonic tab > that makes the Viewsonic the "Primary display for the X-screen) BUT as soon > as I enable the Belinia, the dock jumps across to the Belinia and dialog > boxes open by default on the Belinia. > There is an option in this NVIDIA set up GUI to save X to configuration > file, which I assume I need to save to make the monitor set up permanent. > But of course at the moment the second screen is acting as if it was the > primary screen. > Will this sort wrong primary display problem sort itself out if I save the X > configuration and reboot, or is there something else I should be doing.
Remember that you must be running as root to save from nvidia-settings. Personally, I run it from a terminal: $ sudo -s # nvidia-settings -- Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
