[opensuse] nVidia twinview settings not good on a laptop
On of my company's employees uses a Dell laptop with an external monitor (SuSE 11.1). Chipset is nVidia, using the commercial nVidia driver with default twinview settings. There's a problem with screen size: the laptop's built-in screen is one of the "HD" aspect sizes (wide and short) and the external monitor is a good bit bigger in the vertical dimension. This produces a situation where X treats both displays together as "one big screen" which causes several problems, the most important is that we can't see the bottom-left quadrant of the virtual "screen" I'll try to diagram it (wordwrapping and font differences will probably render it illegible :-) ): ----------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | physical laptop screen | External monitor | | visible area | Visibible area | | | | ----------------------------------| | | Invisible virtual screen | | | area | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- I need some way to make the nVidia driver recognize the different screen sizes and treat them accordingly. It would probably help if it treated them as two separate X screens instead of 1 big virtual screen Has anyone else run into this type of situation? If so what did you do to fix it? Thanks, JW -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 12 March 2009 02:26:56 pm JW wrote:
On of my company's employees uses a Dell laptop with an external monitor (SuSE 11.1).
Chipset is nVidia, using the commercial nVidia driver with default twinview settings.
There's a problem with screen size: the laptop's built-in screen is one of the "HD" aspect sizes (wide and short) and the external monitor is a good bit bigger in the vertical dimension.
This produces a situation where X treats both displays together as "one big screen" which causes several problems, the most important is that we can't see the bottom-left quadrant of the virtual "screen"
< snip > How are you setting this up? Have you tried using nvidia-settings? -- Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 12 March 2009 18:55:15 Don Raboud wrote:
On Thursday 12 March 2009 02:26:56 pm JW wrote:
Chipset is nVidia, using the commercial nVidia driver with default twinview settings.
This produces a situation where X treats both displays together as "one big screen" which causes several problems, the most important is that we can't see the bottom-left quadrant of the virtual "screen"
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How are you setting this up? Have you tried using nvidia-settings?
No, I just used the steps listed in the nVida page of the wiki. JW -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 13 March 2009 12:22:37 am JW wrote:
On Thursday 12 March 2009 18:55:15 Don Raboud wrote:
On Thursday 12 March 2009 02:26:56 pm JW wrote:
Chipset is nVidia, using the commercial nVidia driver with default twinview settings.
This produces a situation where X treats both displays together as "one big screen" which causes several problems, the most important is that we can't see the bottom-left quadrant of the virtual "screen"
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How are you setting this up? Have you tried using nvidia-settings?
No, I just used the steps listed in the nVida page of the wiki.
What desktop? KDE? or Gnome If you can post /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or copy-paste) on http://pastebin.ca and post link here. It is easier to discuss when that is known. The other option could be dual screen mode, where you have 2 independent desktops. You can't move windows from one to the other. Actually the only common thing on the screen is mouse pointer. Maybe the easiest option is nvidia-settings in GUI mode. I got that with compiled driver. It is section "The Hard Way" on the wiki page about Nvidia. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 13 March 2009 01:05:25 Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 13 March 2009 12:22:37 am JW wrote:
On Thursday 12 March 2009 18:55:15 Don Raboud wrote:
On Thursday 12 March 2009 02:26:56 pm JW wrote:
Chipset is nVidia, using the commercial nVidia driver with default twinview settings.
This produces a situation where X treats both displays together as "one big screen" which causes several problems, the most important is that we can't see the bottom-left quadrant of the virtual "screen"
How are you setting this up? Have you tried using nvidia-settings?
No, I just used the steps listed in the nVida page of the wiki.
What desktop? KDE? or Gnome
KDE
If you can post /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or copy-paste) on http://pastebin.ca and post link here. It is easier to discuss when that is known.
I will if your other suggestion doens't work.
The other option could be dual screen mode, where you have 2 independent desktops. You can't move windows from one to the other. Actually the only common thing on the screen is mouse pointer.
No that wouldn't do, for productivity reasons.
Maybe the easiest option is nvidia-settings in GUI mode. I got that with compiled driver. It is section "The Hard Way" on the wiki page about Nvidia.
Thank you, I'll try that. JW -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 13 March 2009 20:40:36 JW wrote:
On Friday 13 March 2009 01:05:25 Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 13 March 2009 12:22:37 am JW wrote:
On Thursday 12 March 2009 18:55:15 Don Raboud wrote:
On Thursday 12 March 2009 02:26:56 pm JW wrote:
Chipset is nVidia, using the commercial nVidia driver with default twinview settings.
This produces a situation where X treats both displays together as "one big screen" which causes several problems, the most important is that we can't see the bottom-left quadrant of the virtual "screen" What desktop? KDE? or Gnome KDE
I also use KDE, NVidia, TwinView, and two differently-sized monitors. I have a dead area that windows generally avoid, although the mouse pointer can still wander over there and the screen-saver (and other applications that try and stretch across both monitors) still try and draw there. It's good, but not quite as good as real Xinerama. Here's some sections from my xorg.conf: Section "Device" Identifier "nVidia 7800 GTX (TwinView)" Driver "nvidia" Option "NoLogo" Option "RandRRotation" "on" Option "ConstantDPI" "off" Option "TwinView" "on" Option "TwinViewOrientation" "DFP-0 RightOf DFP-1" Option "MetaModes" "DFP-0: 1920x1200, DFP-1: 1280x1024; DFP-0: 640x480" BusID "PCI:2:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen (TwinView)" Device "nVidia 7800 GTX (TwinView)" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "TwinView" Screen 0 "Default Screen (TwinView)" Option "Xinerama" "off" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "on" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "AIGLX" "on" Option "UseDefaultFontPath" "false" Option "DefaultServerLayout" "TwinView" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0660 EndSection Section "Module" Load "bitmap" Load "ddc" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "int10" Load "record" Load "v4l" Load "vbe" EndSection -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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Don Raboud
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JW
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Rajko M.