Archive for May, 2009
How to setup dual monitor in Mandriva 2009.1 with nVidia
by flord on May.05, 2009, under Mandriva
I just installed Mandriva 2009.1 and one of the first things I did was to setup my dual monitor the same way I did for the past several versions of Mandriva. But this time, it didn’t work. I mean, it worked, but it didn’t save the xorg.conf and I had to redo the config everytime I logged in. After a bit of work, I found what had changed. Here the new procedure from the begining.
- In the Mandriva Control Center (drakconf), go to Hardware -> Set Up The Graphical Server.
- Click Options, check “Enable duplicate display on the second display”. Click OK.
- Log out, and back in.
- Open a terminal as root.
- Type /usr/bin/nvidia-settings
- Go to “X Server Display Configuration”
- Select one of the monitors and set its position to “Right of” or “Left of”.
- Click Apply. You should see something different on both screens.
- Click “Save to X configuration file”.
Before that, I changed the permissions on the xorg.conf file to be able to write to it as a user. This is what doesn’t work anymore. Something brings back the permissions of that file to root only. So you need to run the nvidia-settings as root. Mandriva should simply ask for your root password when opening this tool, perhaps in the next version.
