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Anyone? |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm wondering what experience (and hopefully guidance) others can |
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> provide to hopefully fix these new problems on my compute server. |
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> Thanks in advance. |
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> OK, yesterday I added a second NVidia adapter to my machine and |
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> used nvidia-settings to create a new xorg.conf file. (Both new and old |
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> are shown at the end) The new setup came up easily and I now have 3 |
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> monitors. Here's the setup: |
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> GTX 465 port 0 -> GPU-0 + DFP-0 |
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> GTX 465 port 1 -> GPU-0 + DFP-2 |
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> 8400GS port 0 -> GPU-1 + CRT-1 |
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> To get this working I had to enable the xinerama use flag as well |
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> as enable Xinerama in xorg.conf. |
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> |
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> Some simple tests of functionality: |
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> 1) glxgears is functional on all 3 displays but only draws actual |
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> graphics on the two GTX465 monitors. It draws a black window on the |
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> 8400GS. It is my understanding that this is expected. |
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> 2) Both Virtualbox and VMWare VM's work fine on all 3 monitors. If the |
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> VMs are running Windows then Flash, Java & Silverlight seem to work |
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> fine on any display. I can play NetFlix movies and run other Windows |
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> apps from within the VMs without any major problems so far. |
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> |
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> Problems: |
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> 1) Adobe flash within Linux is not working at some websites, such as: |
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> http://www.jigsawdoku.com/ |
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> For this page the flash game area is just gray. Flash does however |
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> seem to work on other sites like Adobe's web site so possibly this is |
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> more an issue with that page but I've seen a couple of others so far |
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> that do the same thing. |
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> |
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> |
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> 2) Two KDE features that I like quite a lot are not working at all: |
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> a) F8 - display all desktops doesn't work. With the original 2 |
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> monitors the feature worked fine. |
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> b) The upper left corner 'display all apps' feature is not working. |
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> I've been Googling around without any luck in terms of finding |
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> things to try in terms of fixing this, or even discovering that maybe |
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> these things simply don't work with two adapters. Maybe there are some |
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> accelerations or features I need to enable that nvidia-settings don't |
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> do for me? I don't know. |
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> Note that in the older 2 monitor configuration I was using Twinview |
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> which treats the two monitors as a single large monitor. |
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> Thanks in advance for any ideas about how to get this working at its best. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Mark |
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> |
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> [New 3 monitor xorg.conf] |
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> # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings |
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> # nvidia-settings: version 275.09.07 |
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> (buildmeister@×××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××.com) Wed Jun 8 |
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> 14:38:19 PDT 2011 |
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> |
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> Section "ServerLayout" |
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> Identifier "Layout0" |
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> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 |
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> Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" |
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> Screen 2 "Screen2" RightOf "Screen1" |
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> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" |
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> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" |
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> Option "Xinerama" "1" |
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> EndSection |
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> |
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> Section "Files" |
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> EndSection |
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> |
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> Section "InputDevice" |
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> # generated from data in "/etc/conf.d/gpm" |
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> Identifier "Mouse0" |
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> Driver "mouse" |
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> Option "Protocol" |
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> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" |
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> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" |
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> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" |
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> EndSection |
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> |
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> Section "InputDevice" |
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> # generated from default |
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> Identifier "Keyboard0" |
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> Driver "kbd" |
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> EndSection |
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> |
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> Section "Monitor" |
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> # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid |
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> Identifier "Monitor1" |
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> VendorName "Unknown" |
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> ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster" |
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> HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0 |
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> VertRefresh 56.0 - 61.0 |
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> Option "DPMS" |
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> EndSection |
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> |
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> Section "Monitor" |
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> # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid |
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> Identifier "Monitor0" |
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> VendorName "Unknown" |
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> ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster" |
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> HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0 |
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> VertRefresh 56.0 - 61.0 |
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> Option "DPMS" |
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> EndSection |
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> |
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> Section "Monitor" |
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> # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid |
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> Identifier "Monitor2" |
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> VendorName "Unknown" |
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> ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster" |
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> HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0 |
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> VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 |
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> Option "DPMS" |
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> EndSection |
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> |
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> Section "Device" |
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> Identifier "Device1" |
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> Driver "nvidia" |
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> VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" |
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> BoardName "GeForce GTX 465" |
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> BusID "PCI:2:0:0" |
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> Screen 1 |
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> EndSection |
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> |
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> Section "Device" |
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> Identifier "Device0" |
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> Driver "nvidia" |
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> VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" |
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> BoardName "GeForce GTX 465" |
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> BusID "PCI:2:0:0" |
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> Screen 0 |
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> EndSection |
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> |
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> Section "Device" |
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> Identifier "Device2" |
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> Driver "nvidia" |
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> VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" |
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> BoardName "GeForce 8400GS" |
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> BusID "PCI:4:0:0" |
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> EndSection |
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> |
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> Section "Screen" |
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> Identifier "Screen1" |
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> Device "Device1" |
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> Monitor "Monitor1" |
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> DefaultDepth 24 |
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> Option "TwinView" "0" |
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> Option "metamodes" "DFP-2: 1920x1080 +0+0" |
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> SubSection "Display" |
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> Depth 24 |
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> EndSubSection |
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> EndSection |
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> |
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> Section "Screen" |
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> Identifier "Screen0" |
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> Device "Device0" |
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> Monitor "Monitor0" |
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> DefaultDepth 24 |
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> Option "TwinView" "0" |
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> Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: 1920x1080 +0+0" |
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> SubSection "Display" |
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> Depth 24 |
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> EndSubSection |
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> EndSection |
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> |
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> Section "Screen" |
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> Identifier "Screen2" |
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> Device "Device2" |
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> Monitor "Monitor2" |
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> DefaultDepth 24 |
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> Option "TwinView" "0" |
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> Option "metamodes" "1280x1024 +0+0" |
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> SubSection "Display" |
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> Depth 24 |
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> EndSubSection |
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> EndSection |
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> |
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> |
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> [Previous 2 monitor xorg.conf] |
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> # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig |
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> # nvidia-xconfig: version 270.18 |
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> (buildmeister@×××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××.com) Tue Jan 18 |
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> 22:06:28 PST 2011 |
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> |
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> Section "ServerLayout" |
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> Identifier "Layout0" |
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> Screen 0 "Screen0" |
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> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" |
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> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" |
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> EndSection |
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> |
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> Section "Files" |
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> EndSection |
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> |
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> Section "InputDevice" |
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> # generated from data in "/etc/conf.d/gpm" |
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> Identifier "Mouse0" |
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> Driver "mouse" |
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> Option "Protocol" |
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> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" |
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> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" |
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> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" |
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> EndSection |
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> |
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> Section "InputDevice" |
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> # generated from default |
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> Identifier "Keyboard0" |
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> Driver "kbd" |
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> EndSection |
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> |
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> Section "Monitor" |
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> Identifier "Monitor0" |
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> VendorName "Unknown" |
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> ModelName "Unknown" |
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> HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0 |
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> VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0 |
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> Option "DPMS" |
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> EndSection |
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> |
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> Section "Device" |
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> Identifier "Device0" |
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> Driver "nvidia" |
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> VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" |
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> Option "TwinView" |
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> Option "MetaModes" "1920x1080,1920x1080; 1920x1080" |
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> Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf" |
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> EndSection |
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> |
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> Section "Screen" |
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> Identifier "Screen0" |
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> Device "Device0" |
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> Monitor "Monitor0" |
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> DefaultDepth 24 |
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> SubSection "Display" |
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> Depth 24 |
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> EndSubSection |
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> EndSection |
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