Hi Folks!
I jumped ship from windows 10 recently and have installed KDE Neon after trying out Mint, Solar and a couple other distros. I’ve got a little bit of linux knowledge but not very hot on the X11 side of things. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction on this - there’s lots online about setting up dual or triple monitors but not much that’s helpful to me
I’ve got 6 monitors (4 x 4k and 2 x 1440p) and 2 Nvidia cards (1070 and 980, man they suck in Linux lol). I’ve rearranged the monitors in Nvidia X Server Settings so that they are in a 2x2 grid instead of next to each other in a row (The 6 monitor config i’d like is 3 x 2 (3 monitors horizotally by 2 vertically)). The 4 monitor that are enabled appear to be all running off of ‘X Screen 0’ which running on the 1070.
So the 2 screens physically connected to the 980 are not used. I’ve tried turning on the 2 extra monitors and in Nvidia X Config they are both disabled. There is a dropdown list with the option to create ‘New X Screen (requires X restart)’. I’ve tried this and it tries to create X Screen 1 but when I hit apply it gives the following error (my comments in parenthesis):
- Location of an X screen has changed (not moved anything)
- location or type of an x screen has changed (possibly the new screen? not sure)
- the color depth of an x screen has changed (possibly the new screen? not sure)
- an x screen has been added or removed (the new screen!)
- xinerama is being enabled/disabled (xinerama is disabled)
For all the requested settings to take effect, you must save the configuration to the x config file and restart the x server. (i’ve not created an x config file yet)
This is what the ‘Save to X Configuration File’ button in the Nvidia X Server Settings application churns out if I run it and hit preview (Doesn’t look like it’s got all the monitors in there to me?):
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nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
nvidia-settings: version 390.77 (buildd@lcy01-amd64-022) Thu Sep 6 07:51:39 UTC 2018
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout0”
Screen 0 “Screen0” 0 0
InputDevice “Keyboard0” “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse0” “CorePointer”
Option “Xinerama” “0”
EndSection
Section “Files”
EndSection
Section “Module”
Load “dbe”
Load “extmod”
Load “type1”
Load “freetype”
Load “glx”
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 “BenQ 241W”
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option “DPMS”
EndSection
Section “Device”
Identifier “Device0”
Driver “nvidia”
VendorName “NVIDIA Corporation”
BoardName “GeForce GTX 1070”
BusID “PCI:65:0:0”
EndSection
Section “Screen”
Identifier “Screen0”
Device “Device0”
Monitor “Monitor0”
DefaultDepth 24
Option “Stereo” “0”
Option “nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder” “DFP-6”
Option “metamodes” “DVI-D-0: nvidia-auto-select +640+960, DP-0: nvidia-auto-select +2560+0, DP-2: 2560x1440_144 +0+2160, DP-4: nvidia-auto-select +2560+2160”
Option “SLI” “Off”
Option “MultiGPU” “Off”
Option “BaseMosaic” “off”
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
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I’m not sure where this needs to be saved in KDE Neon so I’ve not tinkered with it or tried to edit it yet
Any help appreciated - happy to check documents but scared I’ll end up down a rabbit hole if i’m on the wrong path and break something!
Thanks
Sunny