twinview with dual dvi asus v9520

DigitalDan · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:06 am Post subject: twinview with dual dvi asus v9520

I have a new 20.1" Dell DVI monitor and a 17" crt monitor. I cannot get it to work in twinview on my asus v9520 card. The problem is that the output is completly random. Meaning, sometimes the display goes on one screen then other times it goes to the other screen between startx es. I have never been able to get the virtual desktop mapped properly on either monitor.

Also when i have connectedmonitor "DFP, CRT" it doesn't work right and I think its because its a dual dvi out and I have to use the dvi to crt adaptor. Not sure if it matters though.

I followed the nvidia README and some discussions on the forum.

Here is my xf86config:

sethleon · Guru Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 398 Location: Germany

try it out another way of posing your monitors
(concerning another configuration I use).
Therefore visit following post, and just look at my
XF86Config posted there, and the configuration
which is also talked about there:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=148042
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DigitalDan · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 6:26 am Post subject:

Ok I followed your config file and re-emerged the 2 packages with the xinerama use flag but the second monitor still doesn't work. It goes into power save mode. Also the selections in Display for screen and mutiple monitors are greyed out.

When I start KDE I get the following error:

sethleon · Guru Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 398 Location: Germany

maybe it is partly because your grafic card,
the chipset is nvidia, right ?
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DigitalDan · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:06 pm Post subject:

yeah its a fx5200
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sethleon · Guru Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 398 Location: Germany

the error tells me that your configuration seems to have
similar or matching sections, could you post your sections of the:
- monitors
- screens
- devices
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DigitalDan · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 4:49 pm Post subject:

Here is the file:

sethleon · Guru Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 398 Location: Germany

change this:

DigitalDan · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 5:32 pm Post subject:

I will try that when I get home. I do have dual dvi output on my card. One of the outputs actually goes to a flat panel monitor through dvi the other output goes to a crt monitor through a dvi_to_crt adaptor. So i'm not sure if it will work.
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sethleon · Guru Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 398 Location: Germany

the mode "CRT" always works,
all in all these are possible:
DFP, CRT, TV
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DigitalDan · Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:14 pm Post subject:

I tried "CRT, CRT" then "DFP, CRT" and then "CRT, DFP" and none of them worked. I received the following error:

DigitalDan · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 8:05 pm Post subject:

I can get KDE to pick up the two monitors now. I followed the example in

sethleon · Guru Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 398 Location: Germany

maybe it is because the parts I just commented in the following code,
which I do not have inserted in my XF86Config:

DigitalDan · Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 12:24 am Post subject:

nah it didn't work, still the same problem.

BTW: I really appreciate your help.
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sethleon · Guru Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 398 Location: Germany

Good to know that my help is appreciated.

OK, my XF86Config works, so I just post,
what I would comment (in your XF86Config):