FC4 x86_64 + NVidia GeForce 6800 PCE + 2 displays

[gloom]

Hi all,

I'm posting here cause I was looking for an answer on the net but didn't find anything yet.

Yesterday I installed 64Bit version of Fedora and putted latest version of nvidia driver.

Everything go fine and my 2 displays (Dell 24" and Dell 17") works fine.

Only problem I got, the 17" who is connected using standard VGA adapter seems to be the primary display under X. 24" on DVI comes after.

So that is not really a problem for software development but when I want to play a game like Quake 4 or UT2004, it takes the 17" for fuul screen .

I'm looking now to tell X or NVidia driver to take the DVI port as primary display.

Anyone has info on how to do it please ?

Here are the options I putted in my xorg.conf :

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA Unknown (generic)"
Option "TwinView"
Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024 +1920+176,1920x1200; NULL, 1920x1200; 1280x1024, NULL"
EndSection

I tried the following but X didn't start anymore :

Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0, CRT-0"
Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024 ,1280x1024"

[hotdog]

Well, in your list of meta modes you're putting the modes for your 17" monitor ahead of the modes for you 24" monitor. Have you tried simply swapping those round? Replace

Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024 +1920+176,1920x1200; NULL, 1920x1200; 1280x1024, NULL"

with

Option "MetaModes" "1920x1200,1280x1024 +1920+176; 1920x1200, NULL; NULL, 1280x1024"

X should be able to work out which mode is for which monitor, given the capabilities of the two, but if it gets confused you can explictly state it like this

Option "MetaModes" "DFP-0: 1920x1200, CRT-0: 1280x1024 +1920+176; DFP-0: 1920x1200, CRT-0: NULL; DFP-0: NULL, CRT-0: 1280x1024"

(See the TwinView readme http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L...ppendix-g.html for details, plus some comments on game full screen modes.)

Hope this helps. I don't have a second monitor here to test it (just got one lovely 24" monitor ) but seems to me it ought to work.

[gloom]

Originally Posted by hotdog

Option "MetaModes" "1920x1200,1280x1024 +1920+176; 1920x1200, NULL; NULL, 1280x1024"

Tried this one but the only thing I got was my 24" is in 1280x1024 and the 17" doesn't support display mode

Originally Posted by hotdog

Option "MetaModes" "DFP-0: 1920x1200, CRT-0: 1280x1024 +1920+176; DFP-0: 1920x1200, CRT-0: NULL; DFP-0: NULL, CRT-0: 1280x1024"

And this one init just the 24" in 1920x1200 but 17" isn't initialised

[hotdog]

OK, so the first suggestion is a no go, when you don't specifiy which mode is which it always uses the second mode for DVI and the first for VGA.

I'm surprised the second one doesn't at least result in both displays working. I'd have thought even if it didn't select the primary display correctly it'd drive both displays, as it should be equivalent to the line you were using. Can you post your /var/log/X.org.0.log file for when you use this MetaMode line? Difficult to know where it's going wrong without more information.