Rotate nVidia monitors?
Preston Hagar
prestonh at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 20:32:10 UTC 2008
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Dave Woyciesjes
<woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> In my Dell Inspiron 5150, I've got a nVidia NV34 32MB GeForce something
> or other. With the nVidia drivers in XP, I have the desktop spanning
> the laptop display and an external LCD. (Dell 17xxFPv). There I can
> rotate the LCD to protrait, and see the driver right.
> Anybody figure out how to do this in Ubuntu 8.04 yet?
>
> Found this:
> http://www.arsgeek.com/2007/07/11/ubuntu-and-pivot-screens-using-nvidias-default-and-proprietary-drivers/
>
> Anybody have anything better?
>
> --
> --- Dave Woyciesjes
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> --- AIM - woyciesjes
>
I was wanting to do basically this same thing. I got it working
today. I am using Ubuntu 8.04 with the proprietary nvidia drivers. I
am on a desktop with a dual-head nvidia card and two 19" 1280x1024 LCD
monitors connected. I wanted one in "portrait" mode and one in
"landscape". I mainly used this tutorial:
http://www.chrisamiller.com/blog/2008/05/11/rotating-one-monitor-with-ubuntu/
What I would recommend, is install the proprietary drivers, install
nvidia-settings and then use that to get the dual monitors working.
Once you have that working, edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and
follow the tutorial above. The only problem I had was that after I
followed the steps on the link, I couldn't get my mouse to go from the
landscape monitor to the portrait one. I checked my xorg.conf and
realized that it was still saying that my portrait monitor was 1280
wide. Since it was rotated 90 deg. it was now 1280 tall and 1024
wide. I then changed the 1280 to 1024 for Screen0 ni the ServerLayout
section of my xorg.conf.
Here is my complete config in case it might help:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 1024 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
# Removed Option "Xinerama" "0"
Option "Xinerama" "1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "DELL E196FP"
HorizSync 31.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "DELL 1907FP"
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option "RandRRotation" "on"
Option "Rotate" "CCW"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "Unknown"
BusID "PCI:5:0:0"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "Unknown"
BusID "PCI:5:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "NoLogo" "True"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "nvidia-auto-select"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
# Removed Option "TwinView" "1"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0, DFP:
nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard1"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
EndSection
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