Mark Hounschell composed on 2019-09-20 16:18 (UTC-0400):
I don't understand why when using nouveau I can't have
You almost certainly can, but you won't any time nomodeset is on your kernel cmdline, and you need to be clearer when you use the term nouveau. You MUST have nouveau KMS enabled and properly working for dual displays running 1600x1200 entirely and mouse moving between them on FOSS. Since your 15.0 is using NVidia drivers, we don't know whether FOSS has been or can now actually support your old G70 via modesetting DDX or nouveau DDX. Based upon my experience with only somewhat newer NVidia GPUs, it should be fully supported by one or both.
both monitors working properly with this video card. That's all I want. Don't care about openGL or nvidia. I just want to use 15.1 without having to purchase a new video card.
Possibly you either ran into the https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1110041 bugaboo leaving nomodeset on the kernel cmdline for first boot, which was later removed by attempting NVidia driver installation, or your fresh installation was tainted with a defective NVidia software installation before FOSS got a chance to show it could work. For NVidia's tainting drivers to not produce black screen instead of login screen it seems Plymouth usually must be removed or otherwise disabled: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1047225#c9 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1053811 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1090451 If you still haven't escaped being stuck in -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org