[Novalug] nVidia and Twinview

Joe Klein jsklein@gmail.com
Thu Jul 29 20:21:52 EDT 2010


I am having the same problem with win7 but have not looked into it.

Joe

On Jul 29, 2010, at 14:02, Nick Danger <nick@hackermonkey.com> wrote:

> Anyone running dual screens with an nVidia card? I have a Dell
> something
> or other with an add on dual card. The primary one is disabled. I was
> running the noveau drivers and using xrandr to force the resolution of
> each of them to 1280x1024. xrandr showed two screens (DVI-0 and
> DVA-1 I
> believe they were) I found issues with the drivers, and X would
> hang/lock hard, or kick me back out to xdm. I did some poking and its
> the driver crapping out.
>
> [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH_ILLEGAL_MTHD - Ch 2/2 Class 0x502d
> Mthd 0x0400 Data 0x00000800:0x00000800
> [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH_ILLEGAL_MTHD - Ch 2/2 Class 0x502d
> Mthd 0x0404 Data 0x00000800:0x00000800
> [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 2
>
> After a few days of this its kind of unacceptable. So I'm trying the
> nVidia driver from rpmfusion. Its up and running, hasnt crashed yet
> but
> its only been a few hours. The problem is I cannot get out of
> 1024x768.
>
> Twinview does a weird thing that makes one screen at 2048x768 for
> xrandr. I cant set it the way I had been because I get an error from
> XrandR
>
> nbrenckle@farkle:~$ xrandr --output default --mode 2560x1024_60.00
> xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed
>
> If I try to use the nvidia-settings panel to show the monitors, it
> insists there is only 1024x768 available and I know that isnt true.
>
> Any ideas? I just rebooted about a dozen times trying odd x.org
> settings
> suggestions I found on line, to no avail. Tomorrow I'll let it run a
> while and see just how stable it really is. If I can lock X up with
> these drivers then there is no hope for me!
>
> Nick
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