On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:02:52 -0400, Chris Clarke <chrisjohn.clarke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > I had TwinView working last night, finished up what I was doing > and shut the computer down. Today when I turned it back on TwinView > is only partially working. The computer boots and runs fine. When X > starts you get a desktop on the monitor, and a second desktop on the > TV, which is the same as last night. However when I try to run > something on the second display (mplayer usually) I get the error > "Error: Can't open display: localhost:0.1" > > Does anyone have any ideas? How do I change permissions for a > display? There is a desktop with wallpaper and icons so I know it's > almost working :( Also any ideas how turning off the computer may > have changed things? Thanks for any help/advice I'm at a loss > here.... > > Chris > I think I've almost figured it out, if I boot with the initlevel set to 3 and then startx from the command line everything works fine, however when I boot with initlevel 5 I have the display problems. So obviously it's a service that only runs at init 5, is there an easy way to figure this out? The other thing I forgot to mention is that I'm using the nvidia-glx.rpm from livna.org does this affect anything? Thanks for any pointers or help.... Chris
