Re: [gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically

2010-01-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
I'm still trying to figure this out! Two screens - one screen is easy. When I undock, I just run: $ xrandr -s 1920x1200 to set the resolution to that of my laptop LCD. All good. When I dock however, I have to run this sequence of commands: $ ./nv-control-dpy --probe-dpys $ ./nv-control-dpy

Re: [gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically

2010-01-26 Thread Hung Dang
I configure xorg.conf for the laptop screen only and use nvidia-setting to setup twinview mode for the external screen (it does not require to restart X). It works fine so far. Hope this help Hung On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.auwrote: Hi all, For a long

Re: [gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically

2010-01-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 18:04 -0700, Hung Dang wrote: I configure xorg.conf for the laptop screen only and use nvidia-setting to setup twinview mode for the external screen (it does not require to restart X). It works fine so far. Hope this help Hung thanks, but I wanted to get away from

Re: [gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically

2010-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 13:11 +0100, YoYo siska wrote: maybe it is even enough to run the --probe-dpys according to what you say about selecting detect displays in the gui... Thanks! This is the closest I've got so far, but it still isn't quite right. I can run `./nv-control-dpy --probe-dpys`

Re: [gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically

2010-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 09:07 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: The only way I got nv-control-dpy to do anything was to use --dynamic-twinview and then xrandr to try and change to the new mode, however it didn't quite work, leaving one screen black (except for the cursor). In the end I still had to

Re: [gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically

2010-01-22 Thread YoYo siska
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:59:43AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 12:52 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:55:33 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Whenever I dock / undock I have to run nvidia-settings to change the resolution from the virtual 3840x1200 to

Re: [gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically

2010-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 12:52 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:55:33 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Whenever I dock / undock I have to run nvidia-settings to change the resolution from the virtual 3840x1200 to 1920x1200 or vice versa. Also since two screens is the Default I

Re: [gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically

2010-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:55:33 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Whenever I dock / undock I have to run nvidia-settings to change the resolution from the virtual 3840x1200 to 1920x1200 or vice versa. Also since two screens is the Default I have to do this when I log in with only the laptop. I am

[gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically

2010-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, For a long time I've been using nvidia's twinview for two 1920x1200 displays (laptop and external LCD). Whenever I dock / undock I have to run nvidia-settings to change the resolution from the virtual 3840x1200 to 1920x1200 or vice versa. Also since two screens is the Default I have to