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Vegar
December 8th, 2009, 07:27 PM
I just installed Ubuntu 9.10, and i just wanna say congratz. It's awesome :)

But, as always.. Things can get a little tricky along the road to the perfect setup :)

Well, as you might get from the title, what I want to accomplish is:

TwinView
DualScreen
Rotation (90 degrees right) on the secondary display.


Now, I've been fooling a round for a while, but without any decent results.

I've got

Nvidia 8800 GTS 512
Driver: "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 185)"

And this is my xorg.conf file


Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster"
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 60.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 8800 GTS 512"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +1680+0, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection


The way I see it, my problem is that when you go for TwinView, the screens have the same id (screen0), which makes it a lot harder for someone like me to rotate just one of the screens.

Thanks in advance, Hope some of you got some knowledge on how to accomplish my dream setup :)

EDIT: Added an image that shows how my screens are set up.

Vegar
December 9th, 2009, 03:54 PM
Bump

Vegar
December 11th, 2009, 01:43 AM
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Vegar
December 11th, 2009, 09:30 PM
bump

Vegar
December 15th, 2009, 04:53 PM
Great bump of justice

Vegar
December 18th, 2009, 03:37 PM
Last bump before i give up :(

thodges999
December 24th, 2009, 04:15 PM
Hi there
Hope you are still watching, I found the answer here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=876891) post 4.

I have an nvidia card and proprietary driver with ubuntu 9.10. It works for me although its not using twinview. Hope this helps.
Regards