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FS#15243 - New nvidia Broke my Dual Monitor Setup

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Captain Kirk (CaptainKirk) - Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 07:31 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 08:52 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Using nvidia-180.51-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz and nvidia-utils-180.51-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz (I found these in my /var/cache/pacman/pkg I was running dual monitors without problem.

I now have:

sudo pacman -Qs nvidia
local/nvidia 185.18.14-1
NVIDIA drivers for kernel26.
local/nvidia-utils 185.18.14-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities and libraries.

and now while nvidia-settings shows me both of my screens, no matter what I pick, the secondary screen never turns on. Nothing appears there.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 08:52 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  we cannot fix closed source driver
Comment by Captain Kirk (CaptainKirk) - Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 07:45 GMT
As far as I know, my GeForce 8400 GS has two outputs, one DVI and one VGA. I have determined that the problem is the DVI output. I have a DVI-VGA adaptor (I think that's what it is) so I can plug in an old CRT monitor into that. Until today it worked, but now whichever monitor is in the VGA works and whichever is in DVI fails to show any image.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 07:58 GMT
Those are binary closed source drivers. Try contacting the Nvidia corporation and inform them about them.
The Arch Linux developers cant solve your problems.
Comment by Captain Kirk (CaptainKirk) - Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 08:12 GMT
Oh. I understand. OK, thank you.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 08:52 GMT
They now release beta builds often. Watch nvforums.net or phoronix.com for announcements of new builds.
You can also downgrade to older package (or build your own from older version) if it still works with new kernel.

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