nouveau and double monitor error

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 15:12:49 UTC 2009


>> I upgraded from F10 to F11Beta/rawhide last night on my laptop and
>> when I got into the office this morning and docked my lappie it has
>> the same problem. The intel driver with my old laptop required the
>> virtual bit in xorg.conf but the nv driver never did. Its a pity there
>> is this regression on the move to nouveau
>
> ...but the nv driver required you to set everything up in xorg.conf and
> you couldn't change it once you'd started X, because that's how
> multi-monitor worked before RandR 1.2.
>
> It's not exactly a regression per se, just a switch to a different
> system with different quirks.

I never had any xorg.conf at all and just used xrandr for the config.

Peter




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