greetings, good folks . . .
i'm running 3.5.13.2 on 12.04LTS on a 64-bit machine.
untril friday i had two monitors, secondary above primary. primary was 1920x1080; secondary, though physically smaller, was 1920x1200. acquired a replacement secondary monitor, fundamentically identical (1920x1080) to the primary.
whereupon xrandr reported 1936x 2152. primary monitor is sharp, secondary has contrasting ghosts slightly to the right of the original image. thinking that my driver was flaked out, i d/led the latest geforce driver and installed it. i rebooted. xrandr briefly listed 1920x2152 (1920x2160 would be correct) before kicker crashed. i have tried running dcop kicker kicher restart; sometimes it shows kicker restarting, but then it disappears not to return. there was a time when editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or before that, XF86config) would let one adjust things to get the video right, and that opening kcontrol and making, then unmaking, a change yo the kicker parameters would fix things. but the x configuration file structure has gone all odd, and i'm not sure i'd know anymore what to tell it anyway. i can go looking for a way to fix the screen configuration, i suppose, but i cannot live without my kicker.
ideas?
thanks.
Am Sonntag, 24. August 2014 schrieb dep:
greetings, good folks . . .
i'm running 3.5.13.2 on 12.04LTS on a 64-bit machine.
untril friday i had two monitors, secondary above primary. primary was 1920x1080; secondary, though physically smaller, was 1920x1200. acquired a replacement secondary monitor, fundamentically identical (1920x1080) to the primary.
whereupon xrandr reported 1936x 2152. primary monitor is sharp, secondary has contrasting ghosts slightly to the right of the original image. thinking that my driver was flaked out, i d/led the latest geforce driver and installed it. i rebooted. xrandr briefly listed 1920x2152 (1920x2160 would be correct) before kicker crashed. i have tried running dcop kicker kicher restart; sometimes it shows kicker restarting, but then it disappears not to return. there was a time when editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or before that, XF86config) would let one adjust things to get the video right, and that opening kcontrol and making, then unmaking, a change yo the kicker parameters would fix things. but the x configuration file structure has gone all odd, and i'm not sure i'd know anymore what to tell it anyway. i can go looking for a way to fix the screen configuration, i suppose, but i cannot live without my kicker.
ideas?
thanks.
Your config is totally screwed. Start with a clean xorg.conf - i.e. move the existing one somewhere save - and look what Xorg does when you start X with both monitors connected. start with plane X and xterm as windowmanager.
What driver do you use?
Nik
On Sunday 24 August 2014 07:44:45 am you wrote:
greetings, good folks . . .
i'm running 3.5.13.2 on 12.04LTS on a 64-bit machine.
untril friday i had two monitors, secondary above primary. primary was 1920x1080; secondary, though physically smaller, was 1920x1200. acquired a replacement secondary monitor, fundamentically identical (1920x1080) to the primary.
whereupon xrandr reported 1936x 2152. primary monitor is sharp, secondary has contrasting ghosts slightly to the right of the original image. thinking that my driver was flaked out, i d/led the latest geforce driver and installed it. i rebooted. xrandr briefly listed 1920x2152 (1920x2160 would be correct) before kicker crashed. i have tried running dcop kicker kicher restart; sometimes it shows kicker restarting, but then it disappears not to return. there was a time when editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or before that, XF86config) would let one adjust things to get the video right, and that opening kcontrol and making, then unmaking, a change yo the kicker parameters would fix things. but the x configuration file structure has gone all odd, and i'm not sure i'd know anymore what to tell it anyway. i can go looking for a way to fix the screen configuration, i suppose, but i cannot live without my kicker.
ideas?
thanks.
I have a Nvidia card, I use the drivers from Nvidia, also have used Debians packaging of the same..prefer Nvidia's package.
I have a custom xorg.conf file that I used for years on my dual monitor setups. Recently I moved the xorg.conf file aside and let Nvidia write a new one, works fine.
If you are using Nvidai's driver I would start over and let Nvidia do its thing..see what happens.. you might be pleasantly suprised.
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On Sunday 24 August 2014 07:44:45 am you wrote:
greetings, good folks . . .
i'm running 3.5.13.2 on 12.04LTS on a 64-bit machine.
untril friday i had two monitors, secondary above primary. primary was 1920x1080; secondary, though physically smaller, was 1920x1200. acquired a replacement secondary monitor, fundamentically identical (1920x1080) to the primary.
whereupon xrandr reported 1936x 2152. primary monitor is sharp, secondary has contrasting ghosts slightly to the right of the original image. thinking that my driver was flaked out, i d/led the latest geforce driver and installed it. i rebooted. xrandr briefly listed 1920x2152 (1920x2160 would be correct) before kicker crashed. i have tried running dcop kicker kicher restart; sometimes it shows kicker restarting, but then it disappears not to return. there was a time when editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or before that, XF86config) would let one adjust things to get the video right, and that opening kcontrol and making, then unmaking, a change yo the kicker parameters would fix things. but the x configuration file structure has gone all odd, and i'm not sure i'd know anymore what to tell it anyway. i can go looking for a way to fix the screen configuration, i suppose, but i cannot live without my kicker.
ideas?
thanks.
I have a Nvidia card, I use the drivers from Nvidia, also have used Debians packaging of the same..prefer Nvidia's package.
I have a custom xorg.conf file that I used for years on my dual monitor setups. Recently I moved the xorg.conf file aside and let Nvidia write a new one, works fine.
If you are using Nvidai's driver I would start over and let Nvidia do its thing..see what happens.. you might be pleasantly suprised.
-- Peace,
Greg
I am pretty sure I fixed a similar issue for R14 not too long ago. 3.5.13.2 would still be affected.
Tim
somehow, it is now working perfectly. this was accomplished through the time-tested linux method of "i dunno -- i tried some stuff and then it worked."
it involved using the monitor configurator in kcontrol, sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, and nvidia-settings run as root so as to be able to write an /etc/X11/xorg.conf -- previous iterations failed to fix the top screen weirdness, or killed one or the other of the screens entirely (which made logging in fun; i'm currently doing the login from terminal, then startx thing -- makes me feel young again, because that's how we did it with kde-1.0).
anyway, thanks, everybody. you got the juices flowing and sparked the zen that sometimes is linux and especially x.
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Timothy Pearson