Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

2024-10-08 Thread Roger Price
On Tue, 8 Oct 2024, Stefan Monnier wrote: Hmm... maybe I'm wrong but this gives me the impression you were not using nvidia's proprietary drivers, which which case you don't/didn't need `nvidia-settings` because `xrandr` (and the various front-ends for it) should have worked fine. Here is what

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

2024-10-08 Thread Hans
Instead of using nvidia-settings, you could also create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf and edit the settings you need. Yes, xorg.conf ois no more needed, as the driver itself checks the settings, but in some cases xorg.conf might help. I allow myself to attache mine here from the old days, it is for nvid

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

2024-10-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I took the risk, clicked on "apply", watched the packages load but during > the installation got the message "Free nouveau kernel module conflicts with > non free nvidia module. Reboot". I saw several messages of the form: Hmm... maybe I'm wrong but this gives me the impression you were not usi

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

2024-10-08 Thread tomas
On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 01:41:20PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: [...] > Synaptic now finds nvidia-settings, but wants 72 other packages to be > loaded, including gcc which I took as a health and safety warning. This is DKMS [1]: NVIDIA's kernel module isn't GPL compatible (but the GPL allows you, t

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

2024-10-08 Thread Roger Price
On Mon, 7 Oct 2024, Xiyue Deng wrote: Roger Price writes: Is there some way of getting to this package? Looks like nvidia-settings comes from "contrib". Have you enabled the contrib repository in your apt settings? Something like below: | deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main co

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

2024-10-07 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 22:52:51 +0200 (CEST) Roger Price wrote: > In Debian 11 I have two 2560x1440 displays side by side in portrait > mode. With the package nvidia-settings I created an xorg.conf which > set these two displays to work as a single 2880x2560 display, Very > nice. I would now like t

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

2024-10-07 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-10-07 21:52, Roger Price wrote: In Debian 11 I have two 2560x1440 displays side by side in portrait mode. With the package nvidia-settings I created an xorg.conf which set these two displays to work as a single 2880x2560 display, Very nice. I would now like to do the same thing in Debia

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

2024-10-07 Thread Xiyue Deng
Roger Price writes: > In Debian 11 I have two 2560x1440 displays side by side in portrait mode. > With > the package nvidia-settings I created an xorg.conf which set these two > displays > to work as a single 2880x2560 display, Very nice. I would now like to do the > same thing in Debian 1

Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

2024-10-07 Thread Roger Price
In Debian 11 I have two 2560x1440 displays side by side in portrait mode. With the package nvidia-settings I created an xorg.conf which set these two displays to work as a single 2880x2560 display, Very nice. I would now like to do the same thing in Debian 12, but with Debian 12 I cannot find