mixed up settings of monitors

mixed up settings of monitors

Postby compay » Jun 25th, '13, 14:18

Hello,
I'm using Mageia for the first time.
I have a larger monitor connected to the DVI-port of my nvidia grapic card and a smaller monitor connected to the VGA-port of it.
The system idenfies the larger as VGA and the smaller as DVI. The smaller is initially identified as the main monitor, so that the login screen appears on it.
After I logged in as a user, set the larger to the main monitor, set to enlarge, not cloned and arrange the displays, I have two cursors moving in parallel on the larger and the smaller monitor. I see duplicated objects on the desktops of the larger and the smaller monitor and when I moved one of it to the other monitor I am asked if i want to overwrite the object. But I can move windows from one monitor to the other and there are no duplicates.
Seems that the setting is a mixture of kloning and enlarging. On installation I answer yes to the question, if I want to use the proprietary drivers of Nvidia.
Shall I use nvidia-settings directly or should it work with the setting offered by Mageia.
Shall I use the opensource-drives or a special update for the nvidia-drivers and where to find?
Greetings
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Re: mixed up settings of monitors

Postby wintpe » Jun 26th, '13, 15:20

did you want twin view ie two monitors offering separate workspace or cloning?

if its separate workspaces, then the nvidia driver supports this and in some post i posted a while back is the Xorg.conf i use to get this.

it did not however work without some manual intervention, in the Xorg.conf

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Re: mixed up settings of monitors

Postby compay » Jun 26th, '13, 15:37

Thank you Peter!
Yes, I want TwinView, as Nvidia called it. Then I will use nvidia-drivers and nvidia-settings and will look for the xorg.conf in your posts.
Greetings
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Re: mixed up settings of monitors

Postby doktor5000 » Jun 29th, '13, 17:59

Depending on which desktop environment you're using, KDE can also be used to configure this since recently ...
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