[SOLVED] Display Settings - Primary Output

[faldiin]

Cheers,
Unsure if this is a bug but thought I would report. When I have 2 displays setup on my laptop (Laptop display + Second Monitor) I have selected to use my laptop as the primary display. When I reboot the laptop after updates, The system will display on the secondary monitor. I change the settings and save again. All works fine till I reboot. Issue happened with both without the Nvidia drivers and with them installed.




System setup
Mageia 3 RC
Asus Laptop with Nvidia 670.
HDMI Monitor as second connection.

Thank you
Faldiin

[sander85]

Are you using KDE or Gnome or something else?

[doktor5000]

If you're using nvidia-settings for the display configuration, you must run it as root, otherwise it cannot save to /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[faldiin]

Cheers,
I am using KDE. The Nvidia Panel does not install. I am going to Display Properties to complete this action. I might need to do that as root also. I am unsure how to do that thou. I know how to on Nvidia. I dont see where I can install that option thou.


Thank you
Faldiin

[doktor5000]

nvidia-settings comes with the Mageia nvidia driver packages:

[doktor5000@Mageia2 ~]$ rpm -qf $(which nvidia-settings)
x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-295.71-1.mga2.nonfree

Please show the output of

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rpm -qa | grep nvidia

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grep -i driver /var/log/Xorg.0.log

[isadora]

Cheers,
First command is as follows

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[faldiin@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia
x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-310.44-1.mga3.nonfree
nvidia304-kernel-desktop-latest-304.88-8.mga3.nonfree   
nvidia304-kernel-3.8.8-desktop-2.mga3-304.88-6.mga3.nonfree
nvidia173-kernel-3.8.10-desktop-1.mga3-173.14.37-9.mga3.nonfree
nvidia-current-kernel-3.8.8-desktop-3.mga3-310.44-7.mga3.nonfree
nvidia-visual-profiler-5.0.35-3.mga3.nonfree
nvidia304-kernel-3.8.8-desktop-3.mga3-304.88-7.mga3.nonfree
nvidia304-kernel-3.8.5-desktop-1.mga3-304.84-3.mga3.nonfree
nvidia-cuda-toolkit-5.0.35-3.mga3.nonfree
nvidia-current-kernel-3.8.8-desktop-2.mga3-310.44-6.mga3.nonfree
nvidia-nsight-5.0.35-3.mga3.nonfree
nvidia-current-kernel-3.8.10-desktop-1.mga3-310.44-8.mga3.nonfree
dkms-nvidia-current-310.44-1.mga3.nonfree
nvidia-current-kernel-desktop-latest-310.44-8.mga3.nonfree
nvidia-current-kernel-3.8.5-desktop-1.mga3-310.40-3.mga3.nonfree
nvidia-current-cuda-opencl-310.44-1.mga3.nonfree
nvidia173-kernel-3.8.8-desktop-3.mga3-173.14.37-8.mga3.nonfree
nvidia-current-doc-html-310.44-1.mga3.nonfree
nvidia173-kernel-desktop-latest-173.14.37-9.mga3.nonfree
nvidia173-kernel-3.8.5-desktop-1.mga3-173.14.37-2.mga3.nonfree
nvidia173-kernel-3.8.8-desktop-2.mga3-173.14.37-7.mga3.nonfree
nvidia304-kernel-3.8.10-desktop-1.mga3-304.88-8.mga3.nonfree

Second line is

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[faldiin@localhost ~]$ grep -i driver /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[     9.922]    X.Org Video Driver: 13.1
[     9.922]    X.Org XInput driver : 18.0
[     9.926] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/v4l_drv.so
[     9.926]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 13.1
[     9.955]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[     9.955] (II) v4l driver for Video4Linux
[     9.955] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  310.44  Wed Mar 27 14:52:56 PDT 2013
[     9.955] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
[    11.172] (II) NVIDIA(0): [DRI2]   VDPAU driver: nvidia
[    17.707]    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
[    17.707]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 18.0
[    17.707] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Power Button'
[    17.742] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Video Bus'
[    17.743] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    17.744] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Sleep Button'
[    17.744] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    17.745] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    17.745] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    17.745] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    17.746] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'ASUS USB2.0 Webcam'
[    17.746] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    17.747] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    17.747] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Asus WMI hotkeys'
[    17.748] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'
[    17.750]    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
[    17.750]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 18.0
[    17.750] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
[faldiin@localhost ~]$

Faldiin

[doktor5000]

Then please try to start nvidia-settings from a terminal. Does that work? If not, please post the output here.

[faldiin]

okay it is working now. I am guessing something I did along the way fixed it. I know how to save this as SU now. Thank you for the assistance.


Faldiin