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I've got two monitors on a geforce 9-something. One's a 1280x1024 lcd monitor on the HDMI out (converted to DVI), that works perfectly. The second monitor (on the VGA out) is an Astar LTV-19BS 16:9 flatscreen TV with a VGA in that ought to have a resolution of 1280x768. Instead, the driver thinks that it's a generic CRT monitor and nvidia-settings won't let me change the resolution to anything higher than 640x480 (which is wrong for the display size anyway and looks terrible).
My xorg.conf is:
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder58) Wed Dec 9 16:35:48 PST 2009
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: xconfig, VertRefresh source: xconfig
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "CRT-1"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
ModeLine "1280x768" 108 1280 1346 1458 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 9600 GSO"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +1280+544, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
# Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1440x900 +1280+544, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
##the proper res for the monitor is 1440x900, and it's 16:9 (not :10)
Mostly generated by nvidia-xconfig with some earlier edits by myself.
I figured the correct way to get the resolution I need was to change the metamodes line for Screen0, but when I do that, it just makes the vga monitor not work at all, which is why it's commented out. The metamodes option that's currently set is the one that results in max 640x480 resolution for the second monitor.
I also tried adding a ModeLine for the VGA monitor, but that didn't work either (as a side note, I don't know why there isn't another monitor entry for the other monitor, but that one works fine, so it's not problematic). What do I need to do to get the right resolution here?
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I'm not sure about your problem, but have you tried disper? (It's in the AUR.) I use it to manage dual monitors with an nVidia card--I just don't know if it will solve the problems of it misreading your monitor or not.
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I can't seem to make the second monitor do what I want with disper. I tried a number of things, and eventually tried
$ disper -r 1440x900 -S
deletion of dangling metamode 52 failed
could not find nor create MetaMode: :: CRT-0: 1440x900 +0+0
So even disper can't set the monitor to the correct resolution on its own.
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Perhaps this site: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/NVidia/Twin_View might help.
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I gave up on getting dual monitors to work for the time being and decided to just get the VGA TV to work at the proper resolution. Through trial and error I managed to figure out that my HorizSync and VertRefresh were set too low, and eventually got higher resolutions working with
HorizSync 31 - 60
VertRefresh 50 - 100
I don't know if those are the best values, but I was able to get 1280x960 resolution on the monitor by itself once I set it suchly.
Given that 1280x960 is a 4:3 resolution I'm begining to think that this TV will only do 1440x90 to"0 for TV input and can only handle 4:3 resolutions with the VGA in. I tried setting Modes "1440x900"and Modes "1280x720", but when I did the xorg log said there were no valid modes for those resolutions, removing, and defaulted to 1280x960. And indeed the picture quality on the monitor looks like it's kind of stretched in the wrong way, but maybe it's just a shitty monitor. If there's another way to try and force a 16:9 resolution I'd love to hear it.
Anyway maybe twinview will work now that the horizsync and vertrefresh are set properly.
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First off, in looking over the xorg.conf that you posted, there was only a listing for Monitor0, and nothing for Monitor1.
Secondly, If you have the monitor/tv's user manual, it gives you the technical specifications in it. If you don't have the manual for it, I find that specifying brand, and fedID number in google helps find that information quite quickly, most times anyway; then it's just the plug in game.
HTH,
Knute
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I ran into this exact issue and found a workable, but non-ideal solution.
First run
nvidia-xconfig --extract-edids-output-file=edid.bin
Keep the edid.bin file someplace safe (I put it in /etc/X11). If your system is like mine, this was the EDID from the LCD monitor. I used this as the EDID data for the second monitor instead of what the nVidia board was getting. To do this, in Section "Screen" I added
Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-3:/etc/X11/edid.bin"
Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x1024 +0+0, DFP: 800x600 +1280+0"
So put the configuration you want into the medamodes option and be sure the CustomEDID option points the display device in question (in my case DFP-3) to the other monitor's EDID file.
Hope that helps.
-C
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In the last few weeks I've been fighting with this issue, both nvidia-settings and disper just showed a couple of resolutions available for the second monitor, the highest being "640x480" which is much lower than the monitor supported.
I, finally, got it completely fixed. Not sure if this works in every case but it completely fixed the issue for me:
The only tweak I had to use is completely removing the "HorizSync" and "VertRefresh" from the only Monitor section of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf file.
Leaving the complete file:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Option "Enable" "True"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
#HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
#VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
Option "NoLogo" "1"
Option "RenderAccel" "1"
Option "RegistryDwords" "PerfLevelSrc=0x3333"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800_75.00"
EndSubsection
EndSection
You'll have to logout and login again after modifying the file the first time. This way both nvidia-settings and disper find all the valid resolutions for the second monitor.
Hope the tip helps someone out!
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thanks for the additional solution...
but this thread is more than a year old.
closing...
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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