1337_powerslacker |
12-11-2015 08:50 PM |
@enorbet: For the life of me, I cannot get my secondary monitor (hooked to the VGA output of the second card) to initialize. I have tried hand-modifying the xorg.conf file to add a second Monitor, Device, & Screen section(s). I've even tried the UseInt10 option, as specified in Nvidia's documentation. Still, no luck. I have yet to get it to turn on. Funny thing is, the first time I tried configuring the Nvidia driver, it came up, no problem (without additional configuration). Then I must have done something to screw it up, and ended up borking the graphics; had to reinstall Slackware from scratch. The secondary monitor has not come up since.
AMD's configuration software was loads easier to configure than this, setting resolutions and monitor positions was a snap; all I had to do was configure it how I wanted it, and then reboot. For all of AMD's shortcomings, this was one advantage I now sorely miss after having taken it granted for so long. This was on almost the exact setup I'm on now, except for the fact that Nvidia apparently still expects me to get my Linux-foo on to try to do what AMD's software did for me, first time, every time. The hardware is top notch, and the driver updates are superb, but the configuration utilities remain primitive. The installer and configuration utilities that Nvidia provides have essentially gone unchanged since last I remember using an Nvidia card, and that was back in 2002, when I still had my GeForce 4 MX card, and when manual configuration was the order of the day. Now, I don't mind hand-editing configuration files; if I did, I wouldn't be running Slackware. My problem is that I still can't get the result I want after much Googling, editing files, and rebooting. I'm about ready to pull my hair out (Figure of speech; my hair is falling out already).
If there is any light you can shed on this situation, I'd be most pleased to hear it.
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