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Zielony

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From: Poznań, Poland

Registered: 2011-04-28

Posts: 20

[SOLVED] KDE issues after kernel & nvidia upgrade (two screens)

Today I upgraded system. Unfortunately after rebooting I saw black screen with cursor at right edge of screen. Although I couldn't see anything, I typed password and logged, but there was no greeting screen in KDE. When KDE started, there was no wallpaper (black instead), no panel and differently configured desktop. Applications were running normally. In meantime, when NVIDIA logo was shown during X initiating, it was moved to the right, that I only could see half of it. I decided to downgrade: firstly KDE - nothing. I had to downgrade kernel (to 3.3.7-1) and nvidia to 295.53. Now it's ok.

Are there any problems with NVIDIA, so should I wait for upgrade?

Last edited by Zielony (2012-07-26 09:29:22)

Zielony

Member

From: Poznań, Poland

Registered: 2011-04-28

Posts: 20

Re: [SOLVED] KDE issues after kernel & nvidia upgrade (two screens)

The problem was that despite my default DVI screen I have connected also VGA screen, which I don't use under Linux. Seemingly, nvidia driver chooses VGA by default. I had to add to xorg.conf ConnectedMonitor option like that:

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        Option      "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0"
EndSection

where DFP-0 stands for my DVI default screen.

Last edited by Zielony (2012-07-26 20:21:08)