Re: Kubuntu, round two

Stephan Rose wrote:
Well had some more Kubuntu fun today!

Now with the video resolution where I want it...

I actually did get the dual view working as well! Though...not quite
the way I want.

I ended up going the nVidia driver TwinView route as from the various
different methods I've seen to get a dual view that seemed the easiest
for me. It being nVidia only doesn't bother me since...I am nVidia
only myself. =)

Yes, thats the easiest way to do it and myself I used it for a quite long time and it has it advantages, as you can turn off the screens too.

Option "MetaModes" "1600x1200,NULL;NULL,1024x768"

This gives you to setups, the first will give you the 1600x1200 on your main screen, the tv will not get any signal, the second will not give no signal to your monitor, but to your plasma.

You switch with: [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[KeyPad +]
[Ctrl]-[Alt]-[KeyPad -]

I think this will fix your fullscreen problem too, you can add more modes if you want. Keep in mind that if you have output to both screens at the same time, the speed will be halved of what the card normally does, this won't affect more than games like Quake4.

If you want to use two screens, then take a look at this config file
http://www.kotiaho.net/~trizt/tmpimg/xorg.conf_nvidia_dual

All you really have to do is change the BusID to match the one that is for your card (in your case, it's the same both for "PCI" and "AGP") and you can drop the "UseInt10Module" in the "PCI" options. Modify the other settings according to your own wishes.

You may want to use nvidia-settings, not sure if ubuntu has it's own package for that one or if it's included with the driver, nvidia-settings allows you to tweak a quite many values for the card/outputs.


When I do play a movie..I want the movie full-screen on the Plasma
regardless of size on the desktop.

aviplay had this feature that you could get it to play the right resolution for twinviews secondary screen, but sadly the program isn't anymore maintained and it only played avi files. I do fully suggest you go and try to use two screens instead of twinview.


I still need to find a good C/C++ IDE though..any suggestions? =)

KDevelop


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//Aho
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