On 24/10/15 04:45, Daniel Bauer wrote:
Hello,
I have two monitors, and a projector, that I only use from time to time to watch a movie. I use OS 13.2, KDE 4.14.9, have an NVIDIA Card with nvidia drivers (I see in Yast that there are also two libdrm_nouvau2 things installed).
Today I turned on the projector, and instead of "no signal" it immediately showed an empty kde background, while the second monitor was turned off. All the content of the second monitor was moved to the primary screen, including the task bar, that was placed below the actual one (so two taskbars above each other). All icons have been grouped in a grid and lost their position where I had them before.
When I turned off the projector, the second screen turned on again, but its desktop was empty. I could not move the taskbar from one screen to the other, but had first to move one taskbar to another edge, delete the second one, move the first one back to it's place, add a new taskbar to the second screen, and adjust all it's settings...
The icons on my first screen are yet to be ordered again by me....
Previously, to make the projector work, I had to open NVIDIA settings after turning it on, disable one of the monitors and enable the projector. Then the projector showed what previously was on the now disabled screen. In the end, I just did the reverse, and everything was as before. Perfect.
Is it possible, that KDE now asks me a two hours work every time I want to see a movie, thus making it more or less impossible?
Or can I get back the more intelligent, old behaviour somehow? Which screws do I have to turn and how?
Thanks for hints!
Daniel
I have no answer nor do I use the same set-up as you have but I do have an observation. I have a nVidia card, GTX660, which I have had for about 3 years and I also have a digital TV card installed with which I watch everyday digital TV on my monitor. I have NO problems for all the years that I have been watching TV using my computer except that a few weeks ago after about 2 hours or so either the SOUND would disappear or the system (computer) would freeze - most annoying when it was just about at the end of a movie! If it was only the sound disappearing then closing down VLC and then restarting it to continue with the program would solve the problem but if the system froze then the only way out was to reboot the computer. I have no idea why this has suddenly arisen but I did read on one the opensuse lists (cannot remember which) that there is a problem in pulseaudio (but its maintainers challenge this) which is causing problems. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.9 & kernel 4.2.2-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org