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NuMPTy Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Mar 2012 Posts: 78
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 6:38 pm Post subject: Nvidia Guide needs modification |
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Hi everyone,
I'm not sure where I should be posting this, but I think the Nvidia Guide is missing a pretty important section for nvidia-settings/nvidia-xconfig:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml
I'm never able to get a DE working without it. Shouldn't it be included? |
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John R. Graham Administrator
Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 10587 Location: Somewhere over Atlanta, Georgia
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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Well that's pretty strange as I've always been able to get my nVidia cards working without using those. What is it that you have to do with them?
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NuMPTy Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Mar 2012 Posts: 78
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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Honestly, nothing exciting. Just download nvidia-settings and run nvidia-xconfig in addition to everything else in the 'doc. After that, X works.
If I *don't* run that, I get the generic unable to open display/screen(s) found, but none have a usable config etc |
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Jaglover Watchman
Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 8291 Location: Saint Amant, Acadiana
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NuMPTy Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Mar 2012 Posts: 78
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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Jaglover wrote: | Creating minimal xorg.conf works here
Code: | Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
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Running nvidia-xconfig is discouraged because it creates mostly useless xorg.conf. |
*shrug* I tried that as well...It may have to do with using multiple monitors, I'm not sure.
Anyways, if it's discouraged, that's fine. Ignore me |
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Jaglover Watchman
Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 8291 Location: Saint Amant, Acadiana
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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Using multiple monitors certainly needs more complicated xorg.conf. Probably nvidia-xconfig can create a draft for this. Shouldn't be used as an actual conf, though.
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Gusar Advocate
Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 2665 Location: Slovenia
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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Jaglover wrote: | Probably nvidia-xconfig can create a draft for this. |
Not really, as it also adds tons of cruft that may or may not be harmless. A fully working, non-crufty multi-monitor config looks like this: Code: | Section "Device"
Identifier "Nvidia card"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "TwinView" "on"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0, DFP-1"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "DFP-1 RightOf DFP-0"
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Adjust output names accordingly of course.
What I'm not sure about is what happens with the 300 driver series (302.17 and 304.22 currently). I think the above still works, but those drivers support xrandr1.2, so the xrandr way of configuring should in theory work too: Code: | Section "Device"
Identifier "Nvidia card"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DVI-0"
Option "Primary" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DVI-1"
Option "RightOf" "DVI-0"
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Just run xrandr on the commandline to get the output names. |
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John R. Graham Administrator
Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 10587 Location: Somewhere over Atlanta, Georgia
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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NuMPTy wrote: | Honestly, nothing exciting. Just download nvidia-settings... | Hope you mean "emerge" instead of "download".
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