Re: Problem with Dual monitor order

From: J.O. Aho (user_at_example.net)
Date: 10/09/05

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    NoneOfBusiness wrote:
    > I have a problem getting dual monitors to work correctly with twinview
    > enabled. I have two flat panel lcd's connected to a geforce 6600gt
    > card. one 19' connected via DVI and primary, one 17' connected via
    > analog and physically located to the right of the primary.
    >
    > After installing the nvidia drivers and i have tried this on Fedora
    > RC4, and Ubuntu my monitor on the right suddenly becomes my primary
    > forcing me to work right to left doing anything. I have tried
    > changing the physical connections on the video card to no avail and i
    > get the same result. This is true even in windows but its easy to
    > resolve using the nvidia utilities. Can anyone help me in resolving
    > this? I have included the relevant sections from xorg.conf

    You need to tell the nVidia driver which monitor should be first and which
    second, this can be done with the ConnectedMonitors and TwinViewOrientation,
    if I do remember it right.

    If you want to be really sure that you have the screens on the right place, I
    would make two different screens whit single view, one for the DVI and one for
    the CRT and then in the ServerLayout section make the following:

    Section "ServerLayout"
             Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
             Screen 0 "Screen0"
             Screen 1 "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0" # LeftOf RightOf Above Below
             InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
             InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    EndSection

    (this will requier you to have 2x of 'Section "Monitor"', 'Section "Device"'
    and 'Section "Screen"' and the rest as they used to be).

      //Aho

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