Display shifted after logout

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croiwen
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Display shifted after logout

Post by croiwen » 2019/06/07 14:49:06

Hi everybody,

I have a really weird problem at a Centos 7-desktop. It features a Geforce 9500 on the nouveau driver with 2 Samsung monitors.
After logging out and reactivating the monitor, the left (primary) screen is shifted to the left - up to an amount, that cannot completely be fixed by the monitor's settings (horizontal position/ auto adjust). So it leaves a two inch black column on the the right side of the left screen.
When trying to adjust the screen using xrandr like this
xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --auto --mode 1920x1200 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --primary
xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --auto --mode 1920x1200 --pos 1920x0 --rotate normal

it actually ignores the black pixels and continues on the right screen. The only solution I could find was to reboot the computer. Any ideas how to fix this without rebooting?

Thanks in advance!

lightman47
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Re: Display shifted after logout

Post by lightman47 » 2019/06/08 11:50:30

Any ideas how to fix this without rebooting?
I'm not confident about that. As an alternative, have you considered using nvidia-detect from elrepo to see if there's a driver for that card? If so, it'll tell you which one to install. In my case is was kmod-nvidia which pretty much keeps itself updated without intervention.

- just an idea -

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