On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:23:34 -0800 Rogan Creswick <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:40 AM, John Jason Jordan ><[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Working around other people's bugs is a PITA. >I'm almost afraid to ask this at this point, but is there *any* chance >that the neuveau driver actually worked correctly, and the screen was >just displaying a solid black image? (a black desktop background, or >some other rendering bug?). > >I have found that gnome panels often interfere with dragging windows >on to adjacent monitors, so that could also be complicating things if >it decided to position the displays such that you had to drag across a >gnome panel to actually get content onto the other display. > >Anyway, I don't expect that this is the problem, but nothing I've read >so far has eliminated the possibility... I have tried setting the external monitor to "mirrored," "right-of," etc. all to no avail. I have done so with the GUI and with xrandr (which recognize each other's changes), but nada. Interestingly, if I have set the external monitor to, e.g., right-of I can then drag the mouse past the edge of the screen to the right. So Gnome is recognizing the setting. It's just something in nouveau that refuses to send the signal for the display. In about an hour I am going to PSU where I will try a projector in an unused classroom. At the moment I still have the nouveau driver installed. Who knows, maybe it will display on the projector where it would not display on an LCD. If that fails, I have downloaded the latest nVidia driver and I will install it and try it. And don't worry about suggesting silly things. In my experience it often is something dumb that I have overlooked. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
