[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#515527: base: dual screen functionality does not work

Barry Horne bhorne at gmail.com
Sun Feb 15 23:36:47 UTC 2009


Hi Holger,

It is loading the nv driver according to the Xorg logs.  I hope this
is what you are after.


Barry

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org> wrote:
> tags 515527 +moreinfo
> thanks
>
> Hi Barry,
>
> thanks for your bugreport!
>
> On Sonntag, 15. Februar 2009, Barry Horne wrote:
>> I have attached dual wide screen monitors to my GeForce 9600GT graphics
>> card.  After installation of Debian the PC reboots and instead of GDM
>> appearing I simply get a blank black screen.  Cntrl-Alt-Fx does not respond
>> either.  I have discovered that disconnecting the second display does allow
>> X (upon reboot) to start normally, and the system is quite usable with a
>> single screen.
>
> Which video driver are you using? xserver-xorg-video-nv,
> xserver-xorg-video-nouveau or xserver-xorg-video-nv?
>
>
> regards,
>        Holger
>





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