reset nvidia-settings

ursvik · 03-26-10, 03:13 AM

I made a stupid mistake configuring twinview.

I have a laptop with analog vga output and i hooked up my tv and had it working side by side in twinview by enabling those features in nvidia-settings

the problem is that after reboot the tv was made primary screen and now i can't use the laptop without hooking it up to the tv, because somehow display 0.0 is now the tv, even if it is not connected. Now i can not get it back.

is there some way i can reset those settings outside of X ?

i noticed that ~/.nvidia-settings-rc has a really old change time, are settings stored somewhere else ?

(xorg.conf was not changed)

**danix** · 03-26-10, 11:57 AM

I'm not sure how you would have configured that sort of setup without changing xorg.conf... The easiest thing to try would be to rename xorg.conf and generate a new one by running nvidia-xconfig.

It would be useful to see your actual xorg.conf file, or better yet, an nvidia-bug-report.log.

ursvik · 03-26-10, 02:04 PM

hmm, figuring out how i did it, i managed to reverse ...

apparently i "disabled" DFP-0 in "Display configuration after fiddling around with TwinView. Please remind me not to do that again

03-26-10, 03:13 AM	#1
ursvik Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 10	reset nvidia-settings I made a stupid mistake configuring twinview. I have a laptop with analog vga output and i hooked up my tv and had it working side by side in twinview by enabling those features in nvidia-settings the problem is that after reboot the tv was made primary screen and now i can't use the laptop without hooking it up to the tv, because somehow display 0.0 is now the tv, even if it is not connected. Now i can not get it back. is there some way i can reset those settings outside of X ? i noticed that ~/.nvidia-settings-rc has a really old change time, are settings stored somewhere else ? (xorg.conf was not changed) Last edited by ursvik; 03-26-10 at 03:13 AM. Reason: clarity

03-26-10, 11:57 AM	#2
danix NVIDIA Corporation Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Santa Clara, CA Posts: 237	Re: reset nvidia-settings I'm not sure how you would have configured that sort of setup without changing xorg.conf... The easiest thing to try would be to rename xorg.conf and generate a new one by running nvidia-xconfig. It would be useful to see your actual xorg.conf file, or better yet, an nvidia-bug-report.log.

03-26-10, 02:04 PM	#3
ursvik Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 10	Re: reset nvidia-settings hmm, figuring out how i did it, i managed to reverse ... apparently i "disabled" DFP-0 in "Display configuration after fiddling around with TwinView. Please remind me not to do that again