Alex, I would happily buy you lunch if you take the time to try and debug this issue. I teach tomorrow from 9:00 to noon, but it will probably end a little early even. But just to be safe, I will say that I am available anytime after noon.
Thank you very much for your offer to help, thomas On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Alex Mandel<[email protected]> wrote: > Thomas Johnston wrote: >> I tried using xrandr but had no luck (see example below). At best >> when I would restart the machine, kdm would fail to launch. That is, >> I would boot to a text only login prompt. I would have to login, >> comment out the offending SubSection Display and restart. >> >> I am wondering if I might need to remove everything associated with x >> and reinstall. And, if that is a smart thing to do, how would I go >> about doing that? >> >> >> Thomas >> >> >> >> >> >> Section "Monitor" >> Identifier "Configured Monitor" >> EndSection >> >> Section "Screen" >> Identifier "Default Screen" >> Monitor "Configured Monitor" >> Device "Configured Video Device" >> DefaultDepth 24 >> # SubSection "Display" >> # Depth 24 >> # Modes "1680x1050" "1680x1050" >> # Virtual 3360x1050 >> # EndSubSection >> EndSection >> >> Section "Module" >> Load "glx" >> Load "randr" >> EndSection >> >> Section "Device" >> Identifier "Configured Video Device" >> Driver "nvidia" >> Option "NoLogo" "True" >> EndSection >> >> Section "ServerFlags" >> Option "DontZap" "False" >> EndSection > > Are you using the open source or the proprietary driver for Nvidia? > Each one might take a different config and work with different tools. > I've been able to use the nvidia-settings tool on my laptop no problem > for a very similar card with 0 tweaks to the xorg config using the > proprietary driver. > > Please note as of Ubuntu 8.04 xorg tries to auto detect everything and > I've seen it work fine on dual monitors out of the box with the ubuntu > screen control (Open Source driver). Xorg considers non auto-detected > features to be bugs and does not recommend the manual tweaking of the > xorg file (Although sometimes you just have to) > > I can meet you on campus tomorrow(UCD) if you want to look it over and > try to get it working, just email me off list. > > Alex > Installfest Coordinator > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
