[Solved] no signal w/ second monitor and dual screen using nouveau, i3

Hi!
I just brought my old screen to my room and try to make it work. It works when the other one is not connected, so no hardware problems. The result is that I can go to the right and do stuff and move the window to my working screen, but the monitor stays black and says "no signal". I tried a long time with nouveau but without success. I was not able to make the graphic card work with the propretary driver from the website and I don't want to downgrade the xorg-server to 1.12 to install nvidia-96xx...
%lspci | grep VGA [0]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] (rev a1)
%xrandr [0]
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3200 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192
DVI-I-1 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 518mm x 324mm
1920x1200 60.0*+
1920x1080 60.0
1600x1200 60.0
1680x1050 59.9
1280x1024 60.0
1280x960 60.0
1024x768 60.0
800x600 60.3
640x480 60.0
720x400 70.1
DVI-I-2 connected 1280x1024+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 376mm x 301mm
1280x1024 60.0*+ 75.0
1280x960 60.0
1152x864 75.0
1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0
832x624 74.6
800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 60.0
720x400 70.1
%cat .i3/config
### ommitted lines
# Multi-monitor setup
workspace 1 output DVI-I-1
workspace 2 output DVI-I-1
workspace 3 output DVI-I-1
workspace 4 output DVI-I-1
workspace 5 output DVI-I-2
workspace 6 output DVI-I-2
workspace 7 output DVI-I-2
workspace 8 output DVI-I-2
workspace 9 output DVI-I-2
workspace 0 output DVI-I-1
### ommitted lines
How I connect it:
%xrandr --output DVI-I-2 --right-of DVI-I-1
nl /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nouveau.conf [1]
1 # the left one
2 Section "Monitor"
3 Identifier "DELL"
4 Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1200_60.00"
5 EndSection
6 # the right one
7 Section "Monitor"
8 Identifier "NEC"
9 Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024_60.00"
10 Option "RightOf" "DELL"
11 EndSection
12 Section "Device"
13 Identifier "nvidia card"
14 Driver "nouveau"
15 Option "Monitor-DVI-I-1" "DELL"
16 Option "Monitor-DVI-I-2" "NEC"
17 EndSection
18 Section "Screen"
19 Identifier "screen1"
20 Monitor "NEC"
21 DefaultDepth 24
22 SubSection "Display"
23 Depth 24
24 Virtual 3200 2224
25 EndSubSection
26 Device "nvidia card"
27 EndSection
28 Section "ServerLayout"
29 Identifier "layout1"
30 Screen "screen1"
31 EndSection
I don't know what I should try. I haven't tried yet the "old-school" Xinerama stuff, but it seems tedious and error-prone...unless someone tells me that it is actually a different and possibly working approach I'm not going to try it. Any hint is welcome! :-)
Best,
Marc
Last edited by Maximalminimalist (2013-11-20 09:57:44)

Hi!
Thanks for pointing out the repo..I did yaourt -Ss nvidia from the beginning and I didn't pay attention to the nvidia package. Sometimes archlinux is more user-friendly than one expects...
So now my second monitor works. :-)
Moral of the story:
If you want to use the NVIDIA driver, read
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nvidia
And if it doesn't work, read
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nvidia
again, because maybe you missed something...
Best,
Marc

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