[SGVLUG] strange dual head problem

[Claude Felizardo]

I got it working.   For some reason, if KDE is configured to use
'display power management', the 2nd monitor stays in stand by mode. 
As soon as i disable the setting, the monitor comes up.  If it's set,
then the next time kde starts the 2nd monitor will stay dark.  Root
had this setting disabled but a regular user had it turned on.  This
was even after I wiped out the .kde directory and restarted.

sorry don't have the version kde handy.  it's the one that comes with
mandrake 10.2.   I think I tried ICWM but it had the same problem. 
Gnome wasn't loaded for some reason.

claude


On 6/22/05, Michael Proctor-Smith <mproctor at surfcity.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 00:58, Claude Felizardo wrote:
> > That was one of the last things i tried adding.  Didn't have an effect
> > though i did spell DRI with lowercase.
> >
> > A few other things people have suggested are to see what user is
> > running the X server (if it's root, then its not a permission problem)
> 
> The X server it's self has to run as root as it has to access memory and
> hardware directly. I don't know how you plan to use the system but have
> you tried gdm,kdm,xdm as these run as root until a user logs in and tend
> to fix permission problems.
> 
> > otherwise look at the stuff in /dev/ and see if anything looks
> > suspicious.  Another thing to look at is permissions for kde files.
> > Maybe while running as root it created a file only it can read?  Oh, i
> > did verify that i can read /etc/X11/xorg.conf though I can not do a
> > directory of /etc/X11.
> >
> > Also looked at /var/log/messages, no obvious messages there either.
> >
> > I'll try this tomorrow.
> > thanks.
> >
> 
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