Backwards Dual Monitor

short circut · 01-01-2007, 02:58 PM

I have set up dual monitors in Core 6. The only problem is the monitors are backwards. I can not figure out how to switch which monitor is which. i have tried altering the x.conf, but that did not work. and i have tried changing it in the display configurer

HappyTux · 01-01-2007, 03:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by short circut

I have set up dual monitors in Core 6. The only problem is the monitors are backwards. I can not figure out how to switch which monitor is which. i have tried altering the x.conf, but that did not work. and i have tried changing it in the display configurer

Well that is not a lot of information to go on. Assuming you have a single card dual connectors one DVI the other VGA and it is the DVI you want as primary display try modifying the device sections to use the option UseDisplayDevice like below. If this is not the case then some details on the setup you have now works including the monitors how they are connected to the video card(s), placement on the desk, posting your xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log files, desired resolutions/colour depth .... you know things like that would be nice to see.

Code:

Section "Device"
 Identifier "NVIDIA0"
 Driver "nvidia"
 Option "IgnoreEDID" "on"
 Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP"
 Screen 0
 BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection


Section "Device"
 Identifier "NVIDIA1"
 Driver "nvidia"
 Option "IgnoreEDID" "on"
 Option "UseDisplayDevice" "CRT"
 Screen 1
 BusID "PCI:1:0:0"

short circut · 01-01-2007, 07:55 PM

Sorry about the lack of information. My linux computer does not have internet access. Let me see if i can give more info. as for the configuration file i cannot get that at the moment, but i will have it tommorow. I have two vga monitors set up on one DVI card. The Dvi adapter i have allows two VGA plugs to be put in. I first got these configured in windows. I have a LCD screen plugged into plug 1(they are numbered) and a crt monitor plugged into 2. The problem is that when i origionally isntalled FC6 i only had the lcd and i had it plugged in to the second plug. So FC6 recognises the Monitors in reverse order making the CRT the primary.