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heikkim
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 9:56 am    Post subject: TwinView and primary monitor Reply with quote

I have set up a dualhead system using nVidia TwinView (I have GeForce FX 5700). My 17" LCD monitor (1280x1024 resolution) is connected to cards DVI-plug and 17" CRT (1152x864) to analog plug (what is its name?).

Everything other works well but I can't set my LCD monitor to primary. So, for example, kdm starts to CRT monitor and when I play Enemy Territory, LCD shuts down and game starts on CRT. When I used google and searched from this forum I noticed that many other people have a similar problem, but I didn't find a solution (just found that this happens because nVidia cards use analog plug by default). So how can I set my LCD monitor to primary?

There is a part of my xorg.conf
Code:

Section "ServerFlags"
 #--
 Option      "Xinerama"    "false"
EndSection
#--
Section "Monitor"           #LCD
   Identifier "Littu"
   HorizSync 30-81   
   VertRefresh 56-75
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "GeForce"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    BusID       "AGP:01:00:0
    Screen 0
    Option      "RenderAccel"
    Option      "HWcursor"
    Option      "CursorShadow"
    Option      "CursorShadowAlpha" "32"
    Option      "CursorShadowXOffset" "3"
    Option      "CursorShadowYOffset" "3"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier    "Duali"
   Device      "GeForce"
   Monitor      "Littu"
   DefaultDepth 24

       Option     "TwinView"
       Option     "MetaModes"  "1152x864,1280x1024; 1024x768,1024x768; 1024x768; 800x600,800x600; 800x600"
       Option     "TwinViewOrientation"      "LeftOf"
       Option     "SecondMonitorHorizSync"  "30-70"   
       Option     "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50-160" 
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier  "Simple Layout"
    Screen 0 "Duali" 0 0
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 3:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's a known problem with the nvidia drivers that you cannot set dvi as primary using twinview when you also have crt/analog monitor connected.
See the end of this thread:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-400311-highlight-.html
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