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I have two monitors.
One goes via HDMI to HDMI on graphics card
Other one foes via HDMI to DVI port on graphics card
All worked fine till I tried Dark Forces from GOG
It tried to start on the DVI monitor and crashed 1 min in game
My DVI monitor is stuck at 800*600 resolution and I cannot use both monitors simultaneously now.
I suspect the game messed up an X config just not sure which one as KDE was fairly plug and play with the dual monitor thing.
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if thats what KDE is using also
Problem is , I don't know what it looked like before :
[alin@archlinux .config]$ cat monitors.xml<monitors version="1">
<configuration>
<clone>no</clone>
<output name="DVI-I-0">
</output>
<output name="DVI-I-1">
</output>
<output name="HDMI-0">
<vendor>SAM</vendor>
<product>0x0b43</product>
<serial>0x5a5a4158</serial>
<width>1920</width>
<height>1080</height>
<rate>75</rate>
<x>0</x>
<y>0</y>
<rotation>normal</rotation>
<reflect_x>no</reflect_x>
<reflect_y>no</reflect_y>
<primary>yes</primary>
</output>
<output name="DP-0">
</output>
<output name="DVI-D-0">
</output>
<output name="DP-1">
</output>
</configuration>
</monitors>
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mine for example:
<monitors><configuration>
<clone>no</clone>
<output name="DVI-D-0">
</output>
<output name="HDMI-0">
</output>
<output name="DP-0">
</output>
<output name="DP-1">
</output>
<output name="DP-2">
</output>
<output name="DP-3">
<vendor>DEL</vendor>
<product>0xa0a4</product>
<serial>0x334e354c</serial>
<width>1920</width>
<height>1080</height>
<rate>60</rate>
<x>2560</x>
<y>0</y>
<rotation>normal</rotation>
<reflect_x>no</reflect_x>
<reflect_y>no</reflect_y>
<primary>no</primary>
</output>
<output name="DP-4">
<vendor>AOC</vendor>
<product>0x2710</product>
<serial>0x00000735</serial>
<width>2560</width>
<height>1440</height>
<rate>144</rate>
<x>0</x>
<y>0</y>
<rotation>normal</rotation>
<reflect_x>no</reflect_x>
<reflect_y>no</reflect_y>
<primary>yes</primary>
</output>
<output name="DP-5">
<vendor>GRU</vendor>
<product>0x4448</product>
<serial>0x00000001</serial>
<width>1920</width>
<height>1080</height>
<rate>60</rate>
<x>4480</x>
<y>0</y>
<rotation>normal</rotation>
<reflect_x>no</reflect_x>
<reflect_y>no</reflect_y>
<primary>no</primary>
</output>
</configuration>
</monitors>
edit:
i see you have nvidia card... if something messed up then delete that monitors.xml file or make a backup of it somewhere.. do a reboot and then set your monitors correctly from nvidia-settings and save them into X. if they are in X, no game should mess that up. Some games (SDL1 ones for example) will disable other monitors if going fullscreen but after you close them, system will restore the monitors that were disabled.
Problem is if i connect both monitors they both go offline.
And the DVI one is stuck at 800*600 with no option to adjust resolution.
I could try to put them in one at a time and edit the config file afterwards I guess.
Or maybe even SSH into the machine with both connected and see what the XML config looks like.
Is there an easier/dirtier option ? Like a reset of KDE settings ?
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cause sometimes all the different monitor config things might get into conflicts.. as there is nvidia-settings, monitors and even xrandr. SSH is an option also.
just in case throw your xorg.conf or 20-nvidia.conf from /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ into here also.
though i still doubt something got changed there unless you ran something as root.
alin@archlinux xorg.conf.d]$ cat 10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf
Section "OutputClass"
Identifier "intel"
MatchDriver "i915"
Driver "modesetting"
EndSection
Section "OutputClass"
Identifier "nvidia"
MatchDriver "nvidia-drm"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
Option "PrimaryGPU" "yes"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/nvidia/xorg"
EndSection
Works fine. When I plug in the second monitor the image just pops up.
So this seems to be KDE specific.
Try to use ArandR so as to autostart on login and setup your monitors automatically just in case something broken your configuration. With ArandR on every boot you will be able to restore your default configuration,