Due to corporate stuff, been away from linux (suse) for 2+ years, and finally happy to be back. I have a tiny acer box which has an nvidia ION chipset, and I have a matrox triplehead to go analog adapter (had it all working nicely on an older computer years ago).
So I have the nvidia drivers installed, ran the nvidia-xconfig, but on a restart, all screens go black with a res error saying it can’t display. I have to really get back into this, but just to get things working, I have the following xorg.conf file which I pieced together from other posts.
xorg.conf
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout0”
InputDevice “Keyboard0” “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse0” “CorePointer”
Screen 0 “Screen0” 0 0
Screen 1 “Screen0” 0 0
Screen 2 “Screen0” 2800 0
EndSection
Section “ServerFlags”
Option “RandR” “True”
EndSection
Section “Extensions”
Option “RENDER” “True”
Option “DAMAGE” “True”
Option “Composite” “True”
EndSection
Section “Module”
Load “dbe”
Load “glx”
SubSection “extmod”
Option “omit xfree86-dga”
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Monitor0”
VendorName “Dell”
ModelName “FP2091”
ModeLine “1024x768” 254.31 3840 3856 3872 3976 1024 1025 1032 1066 +HSync +VSync
HorizSync 31-80
VertRefresh 56-76
EndSection
Section “Device”
Identifier “Videocard0”
Driver “nvidia”
VendorName “XFX”
BoardName “XFX GTX 260 Black Edition”
EndSection
Section “Screen”
Identifier “Screen0”
Device “Videocard0”
Monitor “Monitor0”
DefaultDepth 24
Option “TwinViewXineramaInfoOverride” “1680x1050+0+0, 1680x1050+1680+0, 1680x1050+3360+0”
EndSection
end file
Now, I know that’s not my board, but trying numerous one’s, this was the only config that would get me into ‘non failsafe’ mode so I could run nvidia-settings, but it doesn’t detect the other 2 monitors, etc. I don’t remember if it saw it as 1 large 3820x1024 monitor, or 3 seperate one’s, but I am trying settings, resetting, etc.
Sorry for such a basic post, but as I said, been away for 2+ years and reading and getting re-familiar is like jumping in an ice cold pool!
Thanks