[GTALUG] Xrandr problem

o1bigtenor o1bigtenor at gmail.com
Wed Oct 1 17:14:41 UTC 2014


On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Peter King <peter.king at utoronto.ca> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 08:57:45AM -0500, o1bigtenor wrote:
>
> >    I don't really know how to modify xrandr but I can tell you that part
> >    of your problem is that
> >    xrandr does NOT like multi-monitor setups. This I found out the hard
> >    way when I tried to setup
> >    my multi-monitor system. I had to not enable xrandr as part of my
> >    solution. Perhaps some time
> >    in the future the authors of xrandr will update their solution to
> >    better reflect the real world.
>
> How did you set up your multimonitor system without xrandr?  I'm perfectly
> willing to do it some other way -- I'm committed to the solution, not the
> means.
>

Sorry for the blank message!! (to the list!!)

I'm running nvidia graphics cards (2 connected to monitors) so its a royal
pain
but I'm running the nvidia drivers. Its not that easy to set up the first
time (I spent
a lot of time the first time) but now its a painful process but its quite
doable.

You need to remove the nouveau driver. Means that first you need to get
your system
running on something else and then you black list nouveau and then you
install the
nvidia drivers and then you need to setup all the goodies and then you can
turf the nouveau
drivers and then you have OK performance.

Dee
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