Post install dual-head nouveau setup?

[Chris Kloiber]

Played with this some more today, and successfully got both heads active 
(thanks). There are still quite a few "warts" however.

1- My main display is a 42" HDTV (1080p) that runs at 1920x1080. X 
however wants to start at 1080i. I can manually set it, but it did not 
want to start up right without an xorg.conf.

2- How and where is the ability to write out an xorg.conf with the 
current settings?

3- Where is the "Individual Desktop" setting? Bonus points if you can 
add a second Keyboard and Mouse for the second head and *not* allow 
either pointer to the other head.

4- Running a 3D game (which did start up, btw!) and exiting the game 
results in the second head being deactivated, and everything squished 
into the primary display, and off center to the right in my case by 
about 1/4 screen (second head is "LeftOf" primary). It can be 
reactivated by manually running xrandr with all the options, but 
shouldn't it just go back to the previous (default) settings?

This is all on F13 RC, if I should move this to users@, please let me know.

-- 
Chris Kloiber


On 05/17/2010 05:44 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 04:02 -0400, Chris Kloiber wrote:
>> I did remove the xorg.conf as well as all the nvidia packages from
>> rpmfusion and the nomodeset and rdblacklist=nouveau from the grub.conf.
>> I then rebooted and the primary head only came back up, but at a very
>> low resolution, and using vesa. I then ran system-config-display and was
>> unable to do much more than bring the primary head up to about 1024x768
>> (or was it 1280x1024?) using the nouveau driver. I could not activate
>> the second head at all.
>>
>> You mentioned xrandr... Last I knew it didn't do much. It must be the
>> missing link. If it's required to configure the display it needs to be
>> integrated with system-config-display though.
>
> s-c-d is mostly deprecated (we really ought to get around to removing
> it). In GNOME, use gnome-display-properties. In KDE, use krandrtray. If
> the displays don't both come up at the right resolution by default,
> though, then either that's a driver bug you should report, or you still
> have a buglet in your configuration somewhere. The native drivers should
> always bring up all connected displays at their native resolutions on
> boot unless configured otherwise, that's the intended behaviour.

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