From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qyu9Y-0006SD-Eg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:25:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A99621C162; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:24:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com (mail-qy0-f181.google.com [209.85.216.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42DCD21C039 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:23:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk34 with SMTP id 34so851590qyk.19 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:23:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=EgbJJj2ACv06fq+hmWwRGtbqyb2nFxSqs7S8Hk5amck=; b=wwM/DPabC37wPiuOvas1GRtMawpxBnJMjGnuZu8JCh4NR0XwPo4OLYPV1u1z9qylKJ u5tF7YF0O/5s/oak/HIW31Dvpwp3DnQonHas+pDk353XBcpqowFDz3yga9+1fEjAA1RB G9uDTwLPrMB35c39fW8jE7wprjGN4z3uxkUFg= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.208.200 with SMTP id gd8mr869186qab.112.1314832992247; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:23:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.80.145 with HTTP; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:23:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:23:12 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] Problems with KDE & Flash after moving to dual adapter From: Mark Knecht To: Gentoo User Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d52fcc98fa18cbabafdaf7b8e0599a17 Hi, I'm wondering what experience (and hopefully guidance) others can provide to hopefully fix these new problems on my compute server. Thanks in advance. OK, yesterday I added a second NVidia adapter to my machine and used nvidia-settings to create a new xorg.conf file. (Both new and old are shown at the end) The new setup came up easily and I now have 3 monitors. Here's the setup: GTX 465 port 0 -> GPU-0 + DFP-0 GTX 465 port 1 -> GPU-0 + DFP-2 8400GS port 0 -> GPU-1 + CRT-1 To get this working I had to enable the xinerama use flag as well as enable Xinerama in xorg.conf. Some simple tests of functionality: 1) glxgears is functional on all 3 displays but only draws actual graphics on the two GTX465 monitors. It draws a black window on the 8400GS. It is my understanding that this is expected. 2) Both Virtualbox and VMWare VM's work fine on all 3 monitors. If the VMs are running Windows then Flash, Java & Silverlight seem to work fine on any display. I can play NetFlix movies and run other Windows apps from within the VMs without any major problems so far. Problems: 1) Adobe flash within Linux is not working at some websites, such as: http://www.jigsawdoku.com/ For this page the flash game area is just gray. Flash does however seem to work on other sites like Adobe's web site so possibly this is more an issue with that page but I've seen a couple of others so far that do the same thing. 2) Two KDE features that I like quite a lot are not working at all: a) F8 - display all desktops doesn't work. With the original 2 monitors the feature worked fine. b) The upper left corner 'display all apps' feature is not working. I've been Googling around without any luck in terms of finding things to try in terms of fixing this, or even discovering that maybe these things simply don't work with two adapters. Maybe there are some accelerations or features I need to enable that nvidia-settings don't do for me? I don't know. Note that in the older 2 monitor configuration I was using Twinview which treats the two monitors as a single large monitor. Thanks in advance for any ideas about how to get this working at its best. Cheers, Mark [New 3 monitor xorg.conf] # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings # nvidia-settings: version 275.09.07 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-03.nvidia.com) Wed Jun 8 14:38:19 PDT 2011 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" Screen 2 "Screen2" RightOf "Screen1" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" Option "Xinerama" "1" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from data in "/etc/conf.d/gpm" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" 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 "Monitor1" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster" HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 61.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Monitor" # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster" HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 61.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Monitor" # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid Identifier "Monitor2" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster" HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device1" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce GTX 465" BusID "PCI:2:0:0" Screen 1 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce GTX 465" BusID "PCI:2:0:0" Screen 0 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device2" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce 8400GS" BusID "PCI:4:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Device1" Monitor "Monitor1" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "0" Option "metamodes" "DFP-2: 1920x1080 +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "0" Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: 1920x1080 +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen2" Device "Device2" Monitor "Monitor2" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "0" Option "metamodes" "1280x1024 +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection [Previous 2 monitor xorg.conf] # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 270.18 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-08.nvidia.com) Tue Jan 18 22:06:28 PST 2011 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from data in "/etc/conf.d/gpm" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown" HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0 VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" Option "TwinView" Option "MetaModes" "1920x1080,1920x1080; 1920x1080" Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection