11.3, nvidia & dual screen

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#1

Hi,
I had dual screen config (large desktop) going on 11.2 with proprietary nvidia driver without problems.

After upgrade to 11.3 this didin’t work. I was not able to find a way to configure nouveau drivers, and it was stuck in the ‘twinview’ mode, so decided to install binary nvidia instead (the ‘hard way’). Took me a while to figure out ‘nomodeset’ thing, but in the end drivers were installed successfully. The problem now is that only monitor displays anything, and I can’t find the nvidia control panel to activate second monitor and extend the desktop there.

Used to be able to install nvidia control panel easily in 11.2 with one-click install, but for 11.3 the page says that the one-click install buttons aren’t ready yet (SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE)

So my question is ‘how to get dual screen going and extend my desktop to second screen using 11.3 and nvidia 210 card’ ? And I don’t care whether it’s nouveau or proprietary drivers, as long as it’s easy to configure and it works.

Thanks,

Alex.

#2

The nvidia control panel is installed for you if you loaded the binary driver. In KDE it was placed in the menu/Applications category. The program is called/located at /usr/bin/nvidia-settings. You can add it manually to your menu or on the desktop though I do not know where its default icon is located at.

Thank You,

#3

If you don’t find nvidia-settings you can try:

$ whereis nvidia-settings
#4

thanks guys, nvidia-settings did it. somehow it disappeared from the main menu after upgrade.