-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 > On Sunday 24 August 2014 07:44:45 am you wrote: >> greetings, good folks . . . >> >> i'm running 3.5.13.2 on 12.04LTS on a 64-bit machine. >> >> untril friday i had two monitors, secondary above primary. primary >> was 1920x1080; secondary, though physically smaller, was 1920x1200. >> acquired a replacement secondary monitor, fundamentically identical >> (1920x1080) to the primary. >> >> whereupon xrandr reported 1936x 2152. primary monitor is sharp, >> secondary has contrasting ghosts slightly to the right of the >> original image. thinking that my driver was flaked out, i d/led the >> latest geforce driver and installed it. i rebooted. xrandr briefly >> listed 1920x2152 (1920x2160 would be correct) before kicker crashed. >> i have tried running dcop kicker kicher restart; sometimes it shows >> kicker restarting, but then it disappears not to return. there was a >> time when editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or before that, XF86config) >> would let one adjust things to get the video right, and that opening >> kcontrol and making, then unmaking, a change yo the kicker parameters >> would fix things. but the x configuration file structure has gone all >> odd, and i'm not sure i'd know anymore what to tell it anyway. i can >> go looking for a way to fix the screen configuration, i suppose, but >> i cannot live without my kicker. >> >> ideas? >> >> thanks. > > I have a Nvidia card, I use the drivers from Nvidia, also have used > Debians packaging of the same..prefer Nvidia's package. > > I have a custom xorg.conf file that I used for years on my dual monitor > setups. Recently I moved the xorg.conf file aside and let Nvidia write > a new one, works fine. > > If you are using Nvidai's driver I would start over and let Nvidia do > its thing..see what happens.. you might be pleasantly suprised. > > -- > Peace, > > Greg I am pretty sure I fixed a similar issue for R14 not too long ago. 3.5.13.2 would still be affected. Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAlP6fCMACgkQLaxZSoRZrGExqgDfUlkw2VQhWTJCVMu4eJm+drMR Fh6Orce7iY555ADeKEaNqHGLFCzAzhGQxqprrb0l1422iS+A2b5VyA== =nIpv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----