William Kucharski wrote: > I've recently installed a new generic PC containing a Quadro NVS 290, but my > dual monitor setup no longer works. > > Specifically, monitor 2 is a Dell 2001 FP. > > The NVidia driver correctly probes the monitor, but trying to drive it at its > native 1600x1200 at 60 Hz fails to bring the monitor out of sleep mode. > > I can reduce the resolution to 1280x1024, and that will wake up the second > monitor, but as that's a non-native resolution it looks horrible. > > This same setup worked fine with an older Nvidia card in an Ultra 20, so it > appears to be an issue with the Quadro NVS 290 and Twinview. > > (I also when playing with this get lots of errors about bad metamodes.) > > Is this a known bug? > I verified this problem with metacity as the window manager with drivers 180.44 (2009.06) and 185.18.14. Even with "-logverbose 6" verifying the 1600x1200 mode was validated, it refuses to use this with the cryptic message:
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Due to hardware capability constraints, disabling display (WW) NVIDIA(0): device SUN X7200A (DFP-1) in MetaMode (WW) NVIDIA(0): "nvidia-auto-select,nvidia-auto-select". I suspect this has something to do with the memory placement optimization defaults added in R180 for compiz. I will experiment with workarounds.
