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axel

Member

Registered: 2007-12-10

Posts: 77

External monitor and laptop

I installed Archlinux on a laptop which has a broken screen. That's why I have connected an external crt monitor to that laptop. The whole boot process appears fine on the external monitor. However when I get to the point I must login in kde the external monitor becomes inactive and the image is transfered to the laptop's monitor. Is there a way to bypass this and configure the external monitor to be the default one?

Here are the specs of the external crt monitor:

eizo flexscan f35 1024x768 85Hz fH:27-70KHz fv:50-120Hz

and my current xorg.conf

Section "Files"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath    "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/corefonts"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier    "Default Layout"
    Screen        "Default Screen"
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
    InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver        "kbd"
    Option        "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "XkbRules"    "xorg"
    Option        "XkbModel"    "pc105"
    Option        "XkbLayout"    "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Configured Mouse"
    Driver        "mouse"
    Option        "CorePointer"
    Option        "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "Protocol"        "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping"        "4 5"
    Option        "Emulate3Buttons"    "true"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load    "dbe"
    Load    "type1"
    Load    "freetype"
    Load    "glx"
    SubSection  "extmod"
            Option        "omit xfree86-dga"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "My Graphics Card"
    Driver        "nvidia"
    Option        "DynamicTwinView"    "false"
    Option         "Noaccel"         "false"
    Option         "RenderAccel"         "true"
    Option         "CursorShadow"         "true"
    Option         "HWCursor"         "true"
    Option         "TripleBuffer"         "true"
#    Option        "AddARGBGLXVisuals"    "true"
#    Option         "NoLogo"         "true"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option          "Composite"           "enable"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "My Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS"
    Option         "DPI"           "96 x 96"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Default Screen"
    Device        "My Graphics Card"
    Monitor        "My Monitor"
    Option        "UseEvents"        "true"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        24
        Modes        "1280x800"
        Viewport    0 0
    EndSubSection
#    Option        "AddARGBGLXVisuals"    "true"
EndSection

Any help appreciated.

axel

Member

Registered: 2007-12-10

Posts: 77

Re: External monitor and laptop

Problem solved. Just in case anyone is interested I run

nvidia-xconfig --twinview

which created a new xorg.conf I also added to it under the "Screen" section

Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"

I don't know if this problem is relative but sometimes when I try to login I get the following error from /var/log/errors.log

kdm[7193]: X server died during startup
kdm[7193]: X server for display :0 can't be started, session disabled

I use kdemod. Is this a bug of kdemod or a problem caused somehow by twinview?