On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ken Moffat wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 05:43:48PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>>> Ken Moffat wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 04:22:39PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>>> Good spot.  I do not have CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV set.
>
>>  LOL - I looked through my notes, which was why I suggested it : on
>> both of my old x86_64 machines I was trying out evdev in 2009, when
>> still building both i686 and x86_64 kernels, and had a similar
>> problem: EVDEV set on the 64-bit kernels but not on the 32-bit.
>
> I rebuilt the kernel with CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV and now evdev works fine.
>
> Now I'm having a problem with getting my two monitors working properly.
>  It seems that anything I do, I get the same display reflected on both
> monitors instead of stretching across both.
>
> I'm currently using the nv driver.  My xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log are at:
>
>   http://pastebin.com/QxHNkn2U
>
> Any advice for the nv driver would be appreciated.  I'll try the Nouveau
>  driver next.

I think at this point the Nouveau driver is probably the preferred
open nvidia driver. However, nv should still work unless you have
really new hardware. Here's a guide that's often sited for setting up
monitors in current Xorg:

http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12

> Also for Andy, I did remove the /etc/X11 symlink and now have:
>
> $ ls -l /etc/X11
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 18 14:28 app-defaults
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   31 Jun 27 20:14 xorg.conf.d ->
> /opt/xorg/share/X11/xorg.conf.d

FYI, the symlink is unnecessary. The organization is such that your
local configuration goes in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d. /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d is for package/distro
supplied configuration which has the lowest priority. That's why
10-evdev.conf is there. It supplies a very generic input device setup
that you can easily override in /etc/X11. Essentially you're just
reading in the files twice now, which won't hurt anything. Have a look
at xorg.conf.d(5).

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Dan
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