Hi Markus, I had a similar problem and what I had to do was just mv the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file out of the way (I think system-config-display might be failing on trying to parse your exising xorg.conf file.) I had this problem with my ATI card but it might work for you too. -Tomas Müslüm Ejder wrote: > Hi Markus, > i had 2 Displays connected on 2 devices > 1 Nvidia on Board > 1 Nvidia on AGP > > if u have two Videocards you must go into your PC-BIOS and specify the > Videocard where your Primary Display Connected as your Primary one. > > but most people using only 1 Videocard for two Displays. if this is true > for you then chek if your nvidia driver is installed properly. > > to check it open a terminal and : > lsmod | grep nvidia > if the output like the following line, the driver is installed and works > and you dont need to install the driver again. > nvidia 10311864 26 > > if the output is nothing the driver is not installed or not for the > kernel u have. Then you need to install it with following steps: > > Download the latest driver from > http://www.nvidia.co.uk/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-uk > change to runlevel 3 - open a terminal and type : > su -C 'init 3' > login as root > yum install gcc kernel-headers (installer needs the headers and gcc > to auto compile the driver for your kernel) > now change to folder where u downloaded your nvidia driver is locatet > Type "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12.pkg1.run" > follow the steps from installer to install or reinstall the driver. > > Now or when your driver was properly installed you must config your > screen, for a basic configuration use nvidia-xconfig in terminal as > root. > now u can go back into runlevel 5 as root with: > init 5 > log in in your desktop and open a terminal > now type su -C 'nvidia-settings' > and Configure your Desktop > when you have multiple displays and use it as one big desktop > (stretched) you cannot enable desktop effects etc. only when u have > multiple desktops and displays. > > - hope will help you - > > Am Donnerstag, den 14.01.2010, 10:02 +0100 schrieb Markus Lindholm: >> When I try to run system-config-display as root I get the following >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 378, in <module> >> dialog = xConfigDialog.XConfigDialog(hardware_state, xconfig, >> videocard.VideoCardInfo()) >> File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog.py", line 640, >> in __init__ >> if len(self.xconfig.layout[0].adjacencies) > 1: >> IndexError: index out-of-bounds >> >> The background is that this morning when I came to my desktop machine >> I didn't get a password screen from the screensaver, so I rebooted. It >> booted fine and I got a login screen and it accepted my login but I >> didn't get a proper gnome desktop. All I got was a blue background >> (the standard one) and the possibility to right click -> cŕeate a new >> folder -> open up the file-browser -> find gnome-terminal and so I >> could start applications in X but I had no desktop, i.e. no panels or >> menus and so forth. >> >> I thought perhaps installing nvidia drivers from rpm fusion instead >> would help. That was a non-starter, I didn't even get X. So I erased >> those packages. >> >> At that point I also thought of disconnecting my second monitor that >> had been blank all morning, and that did the trick of getting back my >> desktop, but at that point the resolution of my screen had dropped to >> 800x600 and now I don't seem to have any means to set it back >> >> Any advice? >> Markus >> -- >> users mailing list >> users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
