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    Re: Display settings won't save on restart

    I found this path in the web:
    You can enable these drivers by opening up the [K] menu , selecting "Applications", then "System", and start the "Additional drivers" application to install the nvidia drivers.
    Hope it helps.

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    Unhappy Re: Display settings won't save on restart

    ok so going to additional drivers allowed me to install the propriety drivers I needed, as well as renamed VGA and DVI to CRT and DFP.
    However now I have almost a worse problem: once I restarted the computer and came back it wouldn't change the resolution to anything above my smaller VGA monitor and is stuck on clone, even if I tell it to be right of the VGA one.
    It's a bit weird, the options to change it to 1950x1080 are there but when I select it nothing happens and it changes back to the lower one.

    This is really sucking since now I basically am back to having only one monitor unless I disable the drivers which I am considering doing if this goes on for too long. Not only is it back to one monitor but my smaller one.

    Ok so I can get the monitor to stop being a clone if I have it on the lowest resolution possible which is useless (640x480) or with playing around can get it at it's proper resolution and turn my other one into the lowest, which is what I'm keeping it at for now until it gets figured out.
    Last edited by animedragon67; January 16th, 2011 at 07:45 AM.

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    Re: Display settings won't save on restart

    The proprietary driver for ATI/AMD cards/chips comes also with its own configuration tool, it's called "AMD Catalyst Control Center" (according to its website, may be also ATI ...). It should be in the "System" menu also. Try to set up your configuration with those tool, if you haven't done that already.

    If that doesn't work, you should really try to set up the monitor modes in one of those ways.
    Quote Originally Posted by Krytarik View Post
    First try to specify the monitor modes via "/etc/X11/xorg.conf", if that doesn't work specify them with "xrandr" via the desktop startup scripts:
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution
    It's really not that difficult. You have now the "xorg.conf" at least set up to your current driver and its options, you only have to fix the modes, and if that way also doesn't work, the xrandr way should.

    Good luck!

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    Red face Re: Display settings won't save on restart

    Ok this is not good.
    I configured the AMD catalyst control center and it required a restart. It got to the point after I chose the operating system to boot up and then blank screen.
    After a couple attempts with the same result I came into windows.

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    Re: Display settings won't save on restart

    Then try to boot into "recovery mode", choose "root shell prompt", and then enter:
    Code:
    sudo aticonfig --initial -f
    Then reboot. There is another command in this guide to set up dual monitor config:
    http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...xorg.conf_file
    Code:
    sudo aticonfig --initial -f --adapter=all

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    Unhappy Re: Display settings won't save on restart

    I have a major display issue on an old HP OmniBook with a Pentium 3 900 Mhz processor I'm tried to install Xubuntu on. I managed the install starting from the minimal iso and installing the xubuntu package with tasksel. The problem is the screen is not correctly set unless I run in Gnome Safe Graphics mode (had to install that too.. could not see anything on my xserver otherwise) I tried running in safe mode and it worked the first time, but after fiddling around and rebooting the screen started being garbled even in safe mode.
    If I start a Xubuntu session all i see is the default wallpaper (no menus, no icons whatsoever). If I choose the xfce terminal session I get the same result plus a terminal window which is way bigger than the screen (I don't get to see the upper left corner of it). Tried changing resolution, scale, mode whatever using xrandr but I could only get the text bigger or smaller... and see less of the terminal window. I'm puzzled..

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    Re: Display settings won't save on restart

    @Edoaigor: It would be better to start a new thread on your matter, not at least to draw more attention.

    About your issue: I had a conversation recently with another user regarding a similar issue with an old Omnibook, maybe you can get some usefull tips out of it:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1663355

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    Re: Display settings won't save on restart

    So I've been trying to follow the guides and create a new xorg.conf file..I edited Xsetup but it didn't seem to change anything. I was following this guide:
    https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg

    I couldn't tell you what I'm doing wrong, but I'll post what I wrote. My guess would be naming things for one.

    Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "DualScreen"
    Screen 0 "DFP2"
    Screen 1 "CRT2" RightOf "DFP2" #Screen1(CRT2) right of Screen0(DFP2)
    Option "Xinerama" "1" #To move windows between screens
    EndSection

    Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Monitor0"
    Option "Enable" "true"
    EndSection

    Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "Monitor1"
    Option "Enable" "true"
    EndSection

    Section "Device"
    Identifier "Device0"
    Driver "ati" #Choose the driver used for this monitor
    Screen 0
    EndSection

    Section "Device"
    Identifier "Device1"
    Driver "ati"
    Screen 1
    EndSection

    Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0" #Collapse Monitor and Device section to Screen section
    Device "Device0"
    Monitor "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24 #Choose the depth (16||24)
    SubSection "Display"
    Depth 24
    EndSubSection
    EndSection

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    Re: Display settings won't save on restart

    Code:
    Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier    "DualScreen"
        Screen       0 "DFP2"   
        Screen       1 "CRT2" RightOf "DFP2" #Screen1(CRT2) right of Screen0(DFP2)
        Option         "Xinerama" "1" #To move windows between screens
    EndSection
    
    Section "Monitor"
        Identifier    "Monitor0"
        Option        "Enable" "true"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Monitor"
        Identifier    "Monitor1"
        Option        "Enable" "true"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Device"
        Identifier    "Device0"
         Driver        "ati" #Choose the driver used for this monitor
        Screen        0
    EndSection
    
    Section "Device"
        Identifier    "Device1"
         Driver        "ati"
        Screen        1
    EndSection
    
    Section "Screen"
        Identifier    "Screen0"  #Collapse Monitor and Device section to Screen section
        Device        "Device0" 
        Monitor       "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth  24 #Choose the depth (16||24)
        SubSection "Display"
            Depth     24
        EndSubSection
    EndSection
    It's a good start, but

    - "ati" would mean the default open source driver, not the proprietary one, those is called "fglrx"

    - it may be necessary to add the specs of your monitor, I add my xorg.conf below for reference. To get the correct values of your monitor, use hwinfo:
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install hwinfo
    sudo hwinfo --monitor
    - you have to add another "Screen" section, like in this example:
    https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php....2FDual_screen

    - you should specify the desired monitor modes also, in the screen sections, like in the above example (if that doesn't work, you may have to add the according "modelines" to the "Monitor" sections)

    You have to put all that in "/etc/X11/xorg.conf", not anywhere else, if that file doesn't exist, create it.
    Code:
    # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
    # nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildd@palmer)  Fri Apr  9 10:35:18 UTC 2010
    
    Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Layout0"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        Option         "Xinerama" "0"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Files"
    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"
        # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
        Identifier     "Monitor0"
        VendorName     "Unknown"
        ModelName      "Sony CPD-4401"
        HorizSync       30.0 - 107.0
        VertRefresh     48.0 - 120.0
        Option         "DPMS"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Device"
        Identifier     "Device0"
        Driver         "nvidia"
        VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
        BoardName      "GeForce4 Ti 4200"
    EndSection
    
    Section "Screen"
        Identifier     "Screen0"
        Device         "Device0"
        Monitor        "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth    24
        Option         "TwinView" "0"
        Option         "metamodes" "1152x864_85 +0+0; 1152x864 +0+0; 1152x864_100 +0+0"
        SubSection     "Display"
            Depth       24
        EndSubSection
    EndSection

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    Cool Re: Display settings won't save on restart

    Ugh....so I've been procrastinating a bit but seems I'm having problems with creating the xorg.conf file, I've tried multiple times and it has a problem with the names of the horizontal/vertical syncs. I don't know what it would accept though. Eventually I erased it and booted back up to what I had before so I could do something other than terminal.
    Do things have different names according to the versions or computer you have?
    Or if there's a better way I can fix this problem.

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