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[nvidia-glx] Feisty won't remember my dual monitor setup (nvidia-settings needs root priviledges to edit xorg.conf)

Bug #114353 reported by Kevin Gabbert on 2007-05-13

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #200868: nvidia-settings doesn't have permissions to write xorg.conf. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: yelp

using Nvidia drivers. when I boot up, I always have to go into Sysinfo>Nvidia>Nvidia Display Settings>XServer Display Configuration and Configure it to Twinview. The Separate X Screens don't work at all, which is what I really want. but I can do with twinview..

When I do Twinview, I save the settings, and all is fine till I reboot.

SysInfo sees GPU 0 (GeForce FX 5600) and lists 2 CRTs under it, but it only has 1 X Screen listed above that.

as far as saving the file, basically, SysInfo never saves that file Xorg.

I'm not married to SysInfo,
If there is another way, please let me know, as I would happily mod the Xorg file myself to fix the problem, but I don't know what I am doing there, so I use a GUI app to do it.

I've tried it on 4 different monitors so i don't think it is monitor specific, I am quite sure it is an Ubuntu setting thing.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May 12 19:52:42 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
Package: yelp 2.18.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: yelp
ProcCwd: /home/cronus
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux Acropolis 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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Kevin Gabbert (kevin-kevingabbert) wrote on 2007-05-13:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (31.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (660 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote on 2007-05-14: Re: [nvidia-glx] Feisty won't remember my dual monitor setup

Thank you for your bug report.

Punting from xorg -> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 (because there is mention of Ubuntu 7.04).

Kevin:
Can you post the output of
dpkg -l nvidia-\* | grep ii
.

You may need to run the nvidia display settings tool with root privileges to have the changes "stick". I'm not sure what that tool is called but I'd imagine it would be similar to:
sudo nvidia-settings
...

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Kevin Gabbert (kevin-kevingabbert) wrote on 2007-05-14:

I just got it working. I bought "Hacking Ubuntu" at the bookstore, and followed its instructions for TwinView. I put the following into /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
    Identifier "nVidia Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600]"
    Driver "nvidia"
    Option "TwinView"
    Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1280x1024; 1024x768,1024x768"
    Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
    Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT,CRT"
    Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "UseEdidFreqs"
    Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "UseEdidFreqs"
# Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "24-80"
# Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50-75"
EndSection

this makes it work perfectly!

I guess the error must have been that SysInfo wasn't saving its modifications to xorg, so perhaps I should have run it as sudo. I was just selecting it from the menu. Thats too bad, an XP convert would never know to do that, and SysInfo would just fail to work for them. I think that usability bit should be fixed.

Whatever the case, this fixes it so you can close this one.

Kevin