[Nouveau] Second Monitor left of internal monitor turns internal monitor black

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Nicolas Göddel
<mailinglists at freakscorner.de> wrote:
> Hi Ilia,
>
> with 'xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto --output VGA-1-2 --auto --left-of LVDS1' it
> seems to work properly. Thank you. Do you know about a tool which integrates
> well in Ubuntu? Maybe a GUI for xrandr? The other option would be to use some
> bash script, which also is okay for me.

Sorry, I always just use xrandr directly, that way I don't have to
deal with GUI bugs and limitations. Much easier that way for me, but
do whatever works for you though.

> nicolas at tp-w530:~$ xrandr --listproviders
> Providers: number : 3
> Provider 0: id: 0x6f cap: 0x9, Source Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 3
> associated providers: 2 name:Intel
> Provider 1: id: 0x48 cap: 0x6, Sink Output, Source Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 5
> associated providers: 2 name:nouveau
> Provider 2: id: 0x48 cap: 0x6, Sink Output, Source Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 5
> associated providers: 2 name:nouveau
>
> It looks not normal that I have three providers listed here and two of them are
> exactly the same.

AFAIK that's a minor bug and semi-expected. It may be fixed already in
latest versions of things. I believe it's harmless.

  -ilia