[Nouveau] nvidia gt 545 and nouveau

[Maarten Maathuis]

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:25 AM, Daniel Wallace
<daniel.wallace at gatech.edu> wrote:
> I have 2 monitors plugged into the same nvidia card
> (running nouveau) one can be either DVI-I or VGA(vga right now) and the
> other is hdmi, right now, I am just trying to get the monitors to not
> be clones of each other and to be side by side. When i do xrandr
> --output HDMI-1 --pos 0x0 --output VGA-1 --auto --right-of HDMI-1, the
> whole screen freezes with the mouse in between the 2 monitors and I
> can't do anything except kill the power and reboot, Anyone have any
> ideas where to start, because I have looked for several hours now and I
> can't find anything that would be causing this issue.
>
> What happens when It freezes is the mouse literally gets stuck in
> between the two screens (half on either screen) and since I am unable
> to do any commands with the keyboard I can't take a screen shot.  I
> would really like to be able to use nouveau and xrandr, because I don't
> really want to use Xinerama with the proprietary drivers because then I
> am unable to use compositing.
>
> Any thoughts and questions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel Wallace
>
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What happens if you want to set the framebuffer size to the size of
your two monitors combined?

1280x1024+1280x1024 would be:
xrandr --fb 2560x1024

Afterwards xrandr should say "current 2560x1024" somewhere at the
beginning of it's output.

I assume your two monitors work in clone, so i i'm wondering if it's
the framebuffer allocation that causes the problem.

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