I have 3 1920x1200 monitors. My graphics card is Quadro 5000. The monitors are connected as follows: 2 monitors connected to matrox triple head to go into 1 video port on Quadro 1 monitor connected to 2nd port on quadro This shows as 2 monitors 3840x1200 and 1920x 1200 I use twinview to combine the 2 logical monitors into 1 5760x1200 screen and use Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOverride" "1920x1200+0+0, 1920x1200+1920+0, 1920x1200+3840+0 So that each monitor maximizes properly. Until 302.17, vmware-workstation also recognized 3 1920x1200 monitors and monitor cycling works perfectly in an XP vm. Under 302.17, Linux continues for function properly using the fake xinerama info from the Nvidia driver. However vmware-workstation no longer sees 3 1920x1200 monitors but instead sees 2 monitors 3840x1200 and 1920x1200. It is also restricted to 2 physical monitors and cannot access the 3rd at all. Under my application I require a windows vm to span all 3 monitors as it does now and therefore 302.17 is unusable. I am assume the problem involves the RandR changes in 302.17 but I have been having problems isolating the issue.
This is the case where you're going to need to make configuration changes with regard to XRandr. Please provide the output of: xrandr -q
$ xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 5760 x 1200, maximum 16384 x 16384 DVI-I-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-I-1 connected 3840x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1024x768 60.0 + 3840x1200 60.0* 1920x1200 60.0 1600x1200 60.0 1400x1050 60.0 1280x1024 60.0 1280x960 60.0 800x600 60.3 56.2 700x525 120.0 640x480 59.9 512x384 120.0 320x240 120.1 DP-0 connected 1920x1200+3840+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1024x768 85.0 + 75.0 70.1 60.0 1920x1200 60.0* 1600x1200 60.0 1400x1050 60.0 1280x1024 75.0 60.0 1280x960 60.0 1152x864 75.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 85.1 75.0 72.2 60.3 56.2 720x400 85.0 700x525 120.0 640x480 85.0 75.0 72.8 59.9 640x400 85.1 640x350 85.1 512x384 140.1 120.0 400x300 144.4 320x240 145.6 120.1 320x175 170.5 DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Using the following python program: #!/usr/bin/python # Print some information about the X environment, the monitor setup, currently active window and cursor position import gtk.gdk screen = gtk.gdk.screen_get_default() print "X default screen size: %d x %d" % (screen.get_width(), screen.get_height()) print "xid of root window: %d" % screen.get_root_window().xid monitors = int(screen.get_n_monitors()) print "== %d monitors ==" % monitors for m in range(0, monitors): print " - geometry of monitor %d: %s" % (m, screen.get_monitor_geometry(m)) window = screen.get_active_window() win_x, win_y, win_w, win_h, win_bit_depth = window.get_geometry() print "active window on monitor: %d" % screen.get_monitor_at_point((win_x+(win_w/2)),(win_y+(win_h/2))) print "window geometry (x,y,w,h): %d, %d, %d, %d" % (win_x,win_y,win_w,win_h) display = gtk.gdk.display_get_default() pointer = display.get_pointer() print "cursor position (x, y): %d, %d" % (pointer[1], pointer[2]) print "cursor on monitor: %d" % screen.get_monitor_at_point(pointer[1],pointer[2]) I tested under 295.59 and 302.17 Under 295.59: X default screen size: 5760 x 1200 xid of root window: 637 == 3 monitors == - geometry of monitor 0: gtk.gdk.Rectangle(0, 0, 1920, 1200) - geometry of monitor 1: gtk.gdk.Rectangle(1920, 0, 1920, 1200) - geometry of monitor 2: gtk.gdk.Rectangle(3840, 0, 1920, 1200) active window on monitor: 0 window geometry (x,y,w,h): 10, 34, 1473, 1072 cursor position (x, y): 2079, 279 cursor on monitor: 1 Under 302.17: X default screen size: 5760 x 1200 xid of root window: 754 == 2 monitors == - geometry of monitor 0: gtk.gdk.Rectangle(0, 0, 3840, 1200) - geometry of monitor 1: gtk.gdk.Rectangle(3840, 0, 1920, 1200) active window on monitor: 0 window geometry (x,y,w,h): 10, 34, 1131, 677 cursor position (x, y): 3108, 661 cursor on monitor: 0 I think this is the cause of the problem. nvidiaXineramaInfoOverride does not work for gtk. Anyone aware of any workarounds?
(In reply to comment #3) > > I think this is the cause of the problem. nvidiaXineramaInfoOverride does > not work for gtk. Anyone aware of any workarounds? Its possible this is fixed in 304.22.
Looks like it might. I tried it but it puts X into a continuous loop send modes to the monitors after GDM login. GDM comes up fine but after login the screens all blank and never come back. I reported it to nvidia.
Nvidia seems to have shut down all means of driver support over a security issue. Anyone know anything more about this?
(In reply to comment #6) > Nvidia seems to have shut down all means of driver support over a security > issue. Anyone know anything more about this? Yeah. Their forums are down until further notice.
Due to other problems with this version of the driver, they're masked now so I'm going to close this bug out. If the problem occurs with newer versions, feel free to reopen the issue.
