[opensuse] Nvidia: cloning notebook desktop to external monitor
Hello, I have a notebook and sometimes want to connect it to my bigger, external monitor. My goal is to completely clone the desktop on the notebook to the external monitor. The notebook does 1600x900 and the external monitor does 1680x1050. So far I had no luck. Once, when I started an app, the app itself was seen on the notebook and the desktop on the external screen, or vice versa..... I just want an *exact clone*. I want to see my desktop at 1600x900 on the notebook and when I plug in the external monitor i want to see my desktop at 1680x1050. Below is xorg.conf created with the nvidia tool under KDE, but it does not what i want. Who uses such a setup and can show me their xorg.conf? Thanx Malte # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings # nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder58) Thu Apr 22 20:36:15 PDT 2010 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen1" 1600 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" Option "Xinerama" "0" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "Monitor" # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "AUO" HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0 VertRefresh 60.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Monitor" # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid Identifier "Monitor1" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster" HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce G210M" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Screen 0 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device1" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce G210M" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Screen 1 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "0" Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Device1" Monitor "Monitor1" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "0" Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1680x1050_60 +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Malte Gell
Hello,
I have a notebook and sometimes want to connect it to my bigger, external monitor. My goal is to completely clone the desktop on the notebook to the external monitor.
The notebook does 1600x900 and the external monitor does 1680x1050. So far I had no luck. Once, when I started an app, the app itself was seen on the notebook and the desktop on the external screen, or vice versa..... I just want an *exact clone*. I want to see my desktop at 1600x900 on the notebook and when I plug in the external monitor i want to see my desktop at 1680x1050.
Ha, I was now able to build such a setup with the nVidia tool, below is my xorg.conf if someone is interested. But, the image quality on the external monitor is just terrible, i wonder what I can do about this. Better VGA cable? # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings # nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder58) Thu Apr 22 20:36:15 PDT 2010 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" Option "Xinerama" "0" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "Monitor" # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster" HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce G210M" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "1" Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0" Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1680x1050_60 +0+0, DFP: nvidia-auto- select +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Malte Gell wrote:
The notebook does 1600x900 and the external monitor does 1680x1050. So far I had no luck. Once, when I started an app, the app itself was seen on the notebook and the desktop on the external screen, or vice versa..... I just want an *exact clone*. I want to see my desktop at 1600x900 on the notebook and when I plug in the external monitor i want to see my desktop at 1680x1050.
Not sure what you want - a reconfiguration of screen size or a scaling of 1600x900 to 1680x1050. The latter will definitely end up in horrible quality. Nevertheless - I don't even have a xorg.conf file, modern systems often don't need it. For those kind of things like switching/cloning to external monitors I use disper (got it from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/Utilities/openSUSE_11.2) , an extremely handy tool that (at least for me) just 'does the right thing'. Pit -- Dr. Peter "Pit" Suetterlin http://www.astro.su.se/~pit Institute for Solar Physics Tel.: +34 922 405 590 (Spain) P.Suetterlin@royac.iac.es +46 8 5537 8507 (Sweden) Peter.Suetterlin@astro.su.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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