Hello there,
I’m a new openSuse user from Germany, close to setting fire to his mainboard ^^
I installed openSuse some time ago but I really only started to use / work with it in the last couple days.
My first problem is, there is no sound. No matter what I do. I went through a lot of tutorials and checked many threads in this forum, but nothing made a beep.
I checked the repositorys and drivers and everything looks fine (at least according to the threads&tutorials i found)
The other problem is, I have dual monitors. They work when I use Windows, but the second one has no life once I get into openSuse.
I would be very thankful for any help I get with this.
two things:
Please start one thread per problem, i.e. one for the sound problem (better in the multimedia forum) and one for the monitor problems.
Second: We need WAY mor einformation on your hardware.
What openSUSE version ? 11.0 ? 11.1 ? 11.2 ? It makes a difference. Please be certain to open your mixer (kmix in kde, alsa mixer in gnome) and unmute and move up the volume in master, PCM, and speaker (if there is such a setting). Note in kmix you can add additional channels to get more mixer controls.
I think the command xrandr -q with both monitors plugged in, will give you information that you need to know to configure both monitors. I do not know for certain if that command will work with the open source nvidia graphic driver and you may need to use the proprietary graphic driver instead.
I think if you install the proprietary nVidia graphic driver (guidance here: NVIDIA - openSUSE ) and then type: xrandr -q it may be VERY EASY (however I note 4.1 of KDE is buggy, … with 4.3.2 of KDE it is VERY EASY).
If you can not figure out the guide above, post here and someone can walk you thru what you need to do.
After installing the proprietary NVidia drivers, I’d use the NVidia XServer settings app to adjust the monitors. It gets installed with the driver, IIRC.
Both screens are connected now, but I only connected the second one after I already entered my OS. Is there a problem with recognition?
And to be honest, you could have shown me a map of the Zurich-Underground and I would’ve known more about what I need to do ^^ (No offense, as I said, newbie to Linux )
I’ll do the installation of the driver you recommended and post what xrandr says afterwards.
Thanks so far!
//edit: I already installed that driver, sorry, I answered before I took a closer look at the link.
I kept playing with the system and I found the nvidia x server settings.
I also found out how to set the seperate x screen thing, but I CAN’T save the changes to the xorg.conf… When I click the “Save to X Configuration File” button, the dialog box tells me this:
Unable to remove old X config backup file ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup’.
Extract the EDID file from within windows. I used the program softMCCS which can be found here. Open the program and go to file -> Save EDID as. The filename you choose doesn’t matter, but make sure use the binary (bin) format. Put this on a memory stick or use some other method to copy it to your linux filesystem.
Boot into linux and put the EDID file in your /etx/X11 folder (it could actually go anywhere, but I found this to be convenient).
Code:
sudo mv /path/to/your/edid.bin /etc/X11/.
Backup your current xorg.conf file (if you have one).
Code:
sudo mv xorg.conf xorg.conf_backup
Create a new minimal xorg.conf file. Alternately, you can choose just to add to your existing one.
Code:
sudo touch /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Edit xorg.conf and create a simple device section containing the following:
Replace “youredid.bin” with whatever you named your EDID file. The two Option lines are what does the trick. The first tells the driver you have a display connected on the internal DFP-0 port. The second tells it not to probe for an EDID, but rather to use the one you are providing.
Restart X and you should see the NVIDIA logo flashing right at you.
My problem is, no more windows… ^^ How am I supposed to get this EDID File!? Is it the same with any computer!?
(Sorry if I misunderstand some things, this stuff here is really testing my english ^^)
sudo mv /path/to/your/edid.bin /etc/X11/. would’ve been correct, but I misspelled it x11 (small x) Does that mean I overwrote my x11 file with the edid.bin? There was no error thrown and the edid.bin is gone…
I followed the instructions again and I did everything they recommended…
Now it doesn’t even show that there is a second screen in the Nvidia Settings anymore (after I installed the driver you recommended there was at least a second screen, which however, I could not use in anything but TwinView).
And there’s a message that my sounddevise isn’t recognised anymore (but I still have sound…)
a whistler wrote, On 11/19/2009 09:16 PM:
> I followed the instructions again and I did everything they
> recommended…
>
> Now it doesn’t even show that there is a second screen in the Nvidia
> Settings anymore (after I installed the driver you recommended there was
> at least a second screen, which however, I could not use in anything but
> TwinView).
Start from scratch, I’d say. Backup and delete any /etc/X11/xorg.conf (if there is any) and reinstall the NVidia driver. Fastest approach, IMHO.
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