Fedora 16 Dual Monitor

[Marc Blanc]

Le Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:39:12 +0100,
Swapnil Bhartiya <swapnil.bhartiya at gmail.com> a écrit :


>I just got a new monitor. I have GTX 470 card and one monitor is 
>connected via HDMI and other via DVI. While Fedora detects the other 
>monitor, but I can't manage the monitors from the display settings. Can 
>you suggest which nvidia drivers should I install to get the nvidia 
>settings? or is there any other free tool to manage monitors in Fedora 16?

I have two monitors with a Geforce GT430, connected in VGA and DVI. All works
fine with the kmod-nvidia driver. see bellow my xorg.conf generated by
"nvidia-settings" :

 
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 290.10  (mockbuild at hephaestus.wilsonet.com)  Wed
Nov 23 16:53:18 EST 2011

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 290.10  (mockbuild@)  Wed Nov 23 22:25:15 CET 2011
# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Maxdata/Belinea B1980S1"
    HorizSync       31.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce GT 430"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Modes      "nvidia-auto-select"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"

# Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0, CRT:
nvidia-auto-select +0+0" # Removed Option "metamodes" "CRT:
nvidia-auto-select +1280+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0" Identifier
"Screen0" Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
    Option         "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x1024 +1280+0, DFP: 1280x1024 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

To install kmod-nvidia : "yum install kmod-nvidia" if you have rpmfusion in
/etc/yum.repos.d/

HTH.

-- 
M.B