first display on twinview

[netllama]

doob,
Are you reporting that neither of these two options in your xorg.conf are working?
#Option "TwinViewOrientation" "CRT-1 RightOf DFP-0"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "DFP-0 LeftOf CRT-1"

Thanks,
Lonni

[martini]

Originally Posted by netllama

doob,
Are you reporting that neither of these two options in your xorg.conf are working?
#Option "TwinViewOrientation" "CRT-1 RightOf DFP-0"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "DFP-0 LeftOf CRT-1"

Thanks,
Lonni

this works, but CRT is always the primary monitor, which e.g. gdm uses.

i just can manually configure gdm to use the display "1" (instead of the 0), so it displays the login at the DFP monitor.
but this isn't the real problem. e.g. as described down below, the gnome desktop has to be switched manually and other programs will firstly start on the crt monitor instead of the dfp monitor.

[doob]

Originally Posted by netllama

Are you reporting that neither of these two options in your xorg.conf are working?
#Option "TwinViewOrientation" "CRT-1 RightOf DFP-0"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "DFP-0 LeftOf CRT-1"

No they both work as expected, but that's not the problem.
I think the main problem can be summed up thus: originally I had both monitors connected with VGA cables. My MetaModes then were:

Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1280x1024; 1280x1024, NULL; 1024x768, NULL; 800x600, NULL"

This meant that the modes available were

+-----------+-----------+
| TFT       | CRT       |
+-----------+-----------+
| 1280x1024 | 1280x1024 |
| 1280x1024 | None      |
| 1024x768  | None      |
| 800x600   | None      |
+-----------+-----------+

When I changed the TFT to a DVI cable, (using exactly the same Option "MetaModes" as before) this changed to:

+-----------+-----------+
| TFT       | CRT       |
+-----------+-----------+
| 1280x1024 | 1280x1024 |
| None      | 1280x1024 |
| None      | 1024x768  |
| None      | 800x600   |
+-----------+-----------+

Now, that was fixable to a certain extent (just swap round the modes in the config), but as others have said, there is still a problem in that some programs are forced onto what is reported as the primary monitor (in our cases, the CRT, which is incorrect).

Surely this isn't how the driver should behave?

I think you can see the driver doing this swap in these Xorg.0.log snippets:

(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0, CRT-1"
...
(**) NVIDIA(0): ConnectedMonitor string: "DFP-0, CRT-1"
(**) NVIDIA(0): TwinView enabled
...
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using ConnectedMonitor string "CRT-1, DFP-0"
...

(see my bug report for the entire log)

Basically we need to be able to say:

Option "PrimaryMonitor" "DFP-0"

[netllama]

Something along the lines of a "PrimaryMonitor" option is under consideration as an enhancement for a future driver release.

Thanks,
Lonni

[doob]

Fantastic, thank you, please put it in!

Anyone care to second that?

[Intangir]

there should be a setting for Video Overlay monitor also like on windows



on windows you can set video overlay to a specific screen, so whenever an application uses a video overlay, the specified screen shows it full screen, it rules for TV out cause i will start the movie and it plays full screen on my TV while i use my primary screen (CRT) for other junk, i can even play games while the TVout still plays videos

what stinks is i have not found any way to do this on linux

[superm1]

Originally Posted by Intangir

there should be a setting for Video Overlay monitor also like on windows



on windows you can set video overlay to a specific screen, so whenever an application uses a video overlay, the specified screen shows it full screen, it rules for TV out cause i will start the movie and it plays full screen on my TV while i use my primary screen (CRT) for other junk, i can even play games while the TVout still plays videos

what stinks is i have not found any way to do this on linux

My solution has ended up just being two seperate X screens on the same X server. I just make sure to launch any app that needs to be on my tv as such.

I basically only use the TV for mythtv,mplayer,xine, and zsnes so I just added aliases to launch these apps with DISPLAY=localhost:0.1 instead in my bashrc.

My only desire now would be for gdm to have some support for multiple screens so I don't get stuck with grey flickering on my TV while I have my nice gdm theme on my LCD sitting at the gdm login screen.

[Intangir]

sweet, thats what im doing now too
it works great so far!!

i can run mplayer movies full screen to the other display
X is awesome, if i understand correctly, i could assign a 2nd mouse and keyboard to the 2nd screen, not link them and have a 'media center' right there on my TV screen that would potentially be totally seperate from my other desktop?

can you start 2 instances of X using different resource?

[superm1]

Originally Posted by Intangir

sweet, thats what im doing now too
it works great so far!!

i can run mplayer movies full screen to the other display
X is awesome, if i understand correctly, i could assign a 2nd mouse and keyboard to the 2nd screen, not link them and have a 'media center' right there on my TV screen that would potentially be totally seperate from my other desktop?

can you start 2 instances of X using different resource?

I believe you will need to have two seperate instances of X to have a seperate mouse/keyboard. Each X Server can then have a single mouse assigned to it (not /dev/input/mice but what actually X uses for each of the mice). I'm not even sure if nvidia drivers support running two X servers on the same card. You may need a second card to do this.

[Intangir]

i gotta check that out
wouldnt that be cool?

im going to try it all tonight, i wanna set up the TV display with its own wireless mouse/keyboard and make it into a media center seperate from my regular desktop

i gotta see if i can run openGL games on both screen at once too that would be sweet, have company over and we can play multiplayer games on TV and desktop on the same computer!! holy crap that would be cool, i hope it works!

ill post back if it does

[netslaye]

what's the status of this it has been a month already and i'm pissed off. Windows nvidia drivers automatically make my DFP primary.. i don't have to touch it and it's impossible under linux.

[tcfelker]

*bump*

I have the same problem, on a laptop. TwinView works fine, except that GDM and the Gnome panels end up on CRT-0 (my external monitor) instead of the laptop's screen (DFP-0). It does fail gracefully - if the external monitor is unplugged when X starts, I get the display on the laptop's screen. But what I want is for the primary display to be the laptop's screen, and to be able to have extra screen real estate on my external monitor when I'm at home.

Thanks for the Linux drivers,
Tom