Hello, In the Message; Subject : Re: nvidia setup puzzler Message-ID : <9d210021-71ec-4e7d-92cc-62bbade1ef2b@marcchamberlin.com> Date & Time: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:06:43 -0800 [MC] == Marc Chamberlin via openSUSE Users <users@lists.opensuse.org> has written: MC> [1 <text/plain; UTF-8 (8bit)>] MC> On 12/20/24 18:39, Masaru Nomiya wrote: MC> > The NVIDIA driver you are using has its own settings, and this is MC> > interfering with the xorg.conf file, including Screen 1. MC> Thanks again Masaru Nomiya for taking the time to reply to my query. But I MC> remain confused, how is one suppose to configure the settings for the NVidia MC> driver that I am using? The tool I used is nvidia-settings and nvidia-settings MC> communicates with Xorg and configures/modifies xorg.conf as described in my MC> previous email. Further Duck Duck Go searches revealed that there is another MC> tool called nvidia-xconfig and when I ran it, it too produced an xorg.conf file MC> that is very similar to the version I modified in order to get it to work. Here MC> is what nvidia-xconfig produced for the ServerLayout section - MC> > Section "ServerLayout" MC> > MC> > # Removed Option "Xinerama" "1" MC> > # Screen 1 "Screen1" Relative "Screen0" 0 0 MC> > # Screen 1 "Screen1" Relative "Screen0" 0 0 MC> > Identifier "Layout0" MC> > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 MC> > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" MC> > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" MC> > Option "Xinerama" "0" MC> > EndSection MC> I remain confused as to why xorg.conf causes two monitors to be MC> clones (which IS what I want) but it does so when Screen 1 is MC> removed (it is defined later on in xorg.conf) from the MC> ServerLayout section. Why is the xorg.conf file that is MC> created from nvidia-config different from the version created by MC> nvidia-settings? This is baffling to me, what am I missing? I don't understand what you mean by “different versions”. In my environment, the versions are the same as follows; $ nvidia-settings -v nvidia-settings: version 565.77 The NVIDIA Settings tool. $ nvidia-xconfig -v nvidia-xconfig: version 565.77 The NVIDIA X Configuration Tool. Perhaps you may have previously installed the 510 series driver by mistake, and it may still be left over. The NVIDIA Driver installer may not replace it if there is a newer version, and I have also had trouble with this. Anyway, I recommend referring to the manual using the man command for nvidia-settings and nvidia-xconfig. BTW. I thought that setting up dual displays using xrandr was the norm. Best Regards. --- ┏━━┓彡 Masaru Nomiya mail-to: nomiya @ lake.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "During testing, Sakana found that its system began unexpectedly attempting to modify its own experiment code to extend the time it had to work on a problem." -- Research AI model unexpectedly attempts to modify its own code to extend runtime (ars TECHNICA) --