I now have the correct nvidia drivers working, and tried an external monitor. Home it's a single Dell 24' ultrasharp, work it's 3 22' monitors into a matrox triplehead to go, but had both working with a diff distro (should have saved x config).
But alas, nvidia-settings shows the other monitor, I can select it, the default res only goes as high as 1024x768 but even I select that, reboot, disable the laptop screen as I dont want that on, the laptop goes black and the monitor never comes on. I am thinking I may need to edit the conf by hand, but a little rusty as to both what to change, and what can be removed.
If I can get this working with the single dell, the work should be just as easy as it's just a resolution change, but here is the file;
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# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
# Removed Option "Xinerama" "0"
# Removed Option "Xinerama" "1"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "CRT-0"
HorizSync 28.0 - 55.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 8400M GS"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 8400M GS"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor1"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Device1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
x1080 +1280+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
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Thanks for any help, advice or direction.
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