On Wed, 27 May 2009, Pete Theisen wrote:
> I am having major setup issues with my Nvidia AGP dual head card. The
> motherboard is Intel D845GEBV2 with a P IV 1.7, 1.5 gig memory, 60 gig HDD.
> It was working fine but I was having trouble saving the xorg.conf file.
>
> It finally saved without an error message when I gksudo-ed into the
> configuration utility. However, when I rebooted over a week later it all went
> away. I had to do a lot of futzing just to get the gui back on one screen
> (same screen on both heads), and it is not using the Nvidia driver to do it.
>
> Now when I look at the xorg.conf file it is missing most of its stuff, and as
> I look at it, it keeps getting smaller. What the????
>
> Does anyone have an example of what that file should look like, and how to
> save it so it *stays* saved?
Edit it when you're _not_ in X. Always make a backup. Mine (2 * 1600x1200
LCDs, one through DVI, one through D-15) is here:
http://royalty.mine.nu:81/xorg.conf.gz
FF appears to decompress gzip-compressed files transparently. I don't run
9.x, maybe not even 8.x, so extrapolate.
> Come to think of it, I set it up in Ubuntu 8.10, and upgraded over the wire
> to 9.04 before I rebooted.
Yeah. Probably something stomped on your changes during the upgrade.
> The monitors are both Compaq FP7317, the driver is Nvidia-173.14.16. There
> are some other (later) Nvidia drivers in the directory I guess I should
> delete because the 173 is *the* latest one for that card.
>
> Resolution is 1280 x 1024 (60 hz) Horizontal Frequency is 30 to 81 khz,
> Vertical Refresh Rate is 56 to 76. I have read somewhere that each monitor
> should be set slightly different, don't remember why.
The two monitors on my Mac were both CRTs (this was before LCDs), one 60 Hz
and one 56 Hz, and I had to keep them ~4" apart else I would get a dark line
moving up on one and down on the other, both at 4 Hz. I don't see how it
applies to LCDs -- no electron beam to deflect magnetically.
> This is not to mention the Twin View and Xinerama settings, which I don't
> really understand. I want one desktop spread across two screens, and I had
> that for a couple weeks until I rebooted.
That's what I have.
> Only thing I didn't like was that the new windows would open right in the
> crack, half on one side and half on the other.
Don't have that. Windows either appear on the screen with the mouse
pointer, or ignore the mouse pointer and go where they were last, depending
on the app. FF and OOo are annoying, since their auxiliary windows (popups
and Preferences in FF, that F11 and Search in OOo) appear where they were
last regardless of where the main window is.
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