-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin Marques a écrit : > François Patte escribió: >> >> Yes you will have to. There are 2 problems (as far as I can see on my >> laptop (Toshiba qosmio)): > > Did you configure xorg.conf by hand or did you use the nvidia-setting tool? By hand. > >> 1- toggle LCD only, beamer Only, both. This is done with some Fn-F* key >> and this must be done *before* loading the nvidia driver ie. you have to >> do it during the "grub" sequence. > > This didn't work for me. :-( At least it should work during BIOS sequence... did you try to put a looooooong time for grub before booting the default OS? nvidia card gives priority to "CRT", the external display, so, if you plug an external screen/beamer, the display is on this one by default. Try to put a long time before booting in grub.conf then, once you get the display on your external device toggle the Fn-F* keys. On my laptop this is done using Fn-F5 and I get this cycle: CRT-->LCD-->nothing-nowhere(?)-->LCD-->LCD+CRT (at last) On dell laptop this is Fn-F8, on compaq, I don't know. > >> 2- you must have a specific xorg.conf with twinview enabled. > > Ahhh. Here are the modified sections: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" ModelName "LCD Panel 1024x768" HorizSync 31.5 - 50.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 65.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" Option "TwinView" "True" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "TRUE" Option "ModeValidation" "DFP-0: NoVesaModes" Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone" Option "MetaModes" "CRT-0: 1024x768, DFP-0: 1024x768" Option "HorizSync" "CRT-0: 50-100; DFP-0: 31.5-50" Option "VertRefresh" "CRT-0: 60-120; DFP-0: 60" SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Comments. 1- You must be careful with HorizSync and VertRefresh values you could destroy your panel with wrong values... 2- As I said, CRT stands for "external device" even if it is a LCD panel. 3- I put for CRT common ranges for beamers. 4- Option "TwinView" "True" does the job for 2 displays 5- Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone" means that you have exactly the same display on both devices. 6- Other options are not specific to twinview... 7- Resolutions: I have a 1280x800 LCD panel on my laptop, I force both devices to use a 1024x768 resolution because it is the standard for most beamer. With these settings, I get a centered diplay on my laptop screen with 1024x768 resolution, and a full display on the beamer and no parts of both screens are hidden. My laptop is a Toshiba qosmio F20 with NVIDIA GPU GeForce Go 6600 video card. Here is how I use this: I made two xorg.conf files in /etc/X11: one is xorg.conf-normal, the other: xorg.conf-beamer (I think that what is inside each is quite understable...) I put two kernel entries in grub.conf: title Fedora (2.6.23.1-49_1.fc8 normal) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-49_1.fc8 ro normal root=LABEL=/ \ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-49_1.fc8.img title Fedora (2.6.23.1-49_1.fc8 beamer) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-49_1.fc8 ro beamer root=LABEL=/ \ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-49_1.fc8.img During the boot sequence I toggle the arrow keys in order to stop the grub default time. Once I get the display on the beamer (which set by default for nvidia chips), I toggle my Fn-F5 keys upto get both display, then I choose the grug entry with beamer option. *And* in my /etc/rc.local file I added this: ECRAN=`cat /proc/cmdline | cut -d" " -f2` if [ "$ECRAN" = "beamer" ]; then cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf-beamer /etc/X11/xorg.conf else cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf-normal /etc/X11/xorg.conf fi So, the "adequat" xorg.conf file is used.... That's it. Hope this help. - -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cedex 06 Tél. +33 (0)1 44 55 35 61 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHYFtUdE6C2dhV2JURAv4xAJwN+UfSUb6vlS758MDozY7rOHRQmACgiBwi ySpYx1ZlDQPCbAWHMGogdRY= =TQju -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----