Dual monitor setup quit working with recent update ?
Linuxguy123
linuxguy123 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 12:50:34 UTC 2009
On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 19:36 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 19:50 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> > On 09/13/2009 07:39 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > > Further to my last email, I can now only run a graphical session with my
> > > 2.6.30 kernel. All the others fail to start the x session.
> > >
> >
> > You can thank your RPMFusion packages for that. The kmod system is very
> > bad, but they refuse to use any other method despite my suggestions. I'd
> > point you to my personal repo with DKMS RPMs but I'd hate to have all
> > nVidia users start using it and my repo run out of bandwidth. Good luck!
>
> I am happy to report that I got my dual monitors working. I don't know
> what exactly did it, but here is what I did.
>
> I suspected that the laptop display was not working due to a power
> management issue, ie the screen was dimmed too dim to view. I
> suspected this because I have seen this happen after the laptop comes
> back from a suspend event.
>
> So... I went into KDEStart->Settings->System Settings -> Advanced ->
> Power Management-> Edit Profiles -> Screen.
>
> I then disabled "Enable display power management" on each of the
> profiles, saving them as I went.
>
> The I logged out of my KDE session and logged back in. The laptop
> monitor was then functional.
>
> I'm not certain that power management was the issue, but this sequence
> of changes fixed my issue.
I'm unhappy to further report that my dual monitors only work after I
log out and log back in after rebooting.
When I boot up my laptop monitor doesn't display anything. My desktop
is displayed on my external monitor. If my external monitor isn't
connected then I don't have any display at all !
I am hoping this gets fixed before the weekend as I have to take my
laptop on the road on Saturday morning.
However, if I log into a KDE session and then log out and log in again,
my laptop monitor comes to life. Someone forgot to initialize something
somewhere ?
LG
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