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[Jerome <jerome@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I configured xorg.conf to have two separate x-screens, one on my desktop
screen and one on my TV (composite cable). It used to work until I
upgraded to Jaunty.

What I do :
- Plug composite cable from graphical card to TV
- Start X

What I expect :
- An image on my TV and the possibility to move my mouse pointer to the X-screen displayed on TV.

What happens :
- When I move my mouse to the left (where the 2nd display should be), the mouse gets kinda frozen before reaching the edge of the screen. If I login, all is slow and no bar appear (like taskbar, menubar, I have an empty desktop, at least for an abnormally long time).

Xubuntu Jaunty (Xfce)
Packet : nvidia-glx-180
lspci -> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200] (rev a1)

Notes :

- It used to work on Interpid and before

- I tried several xorg.conf 
  - built using nvidia-settings
  - built from scratch using ubuntu-fr.org documentation
  - taken from the internet (ubuntu-fr.org documentation)
  and it didn't make any difference.

- My TV is detected. Indeed, I can check that with nvidia-settings.
Besides, if the TV is not plugged, everything works like a charm : the
2nd X-screen is not created. That is the behaviour I expect. (At least
the behaviour I am used to).

- I tried twinview and it seemed to work : I had an extended desktop on
my screen and TV. Perhaps with a black and white image on TV, I don't
remember, but I did not investigate any further since twinview does not
fit my needs : I want seperate x-screens.

- I found this in syslog : "gdm[11131]: WARNING:
gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0" I have no
idea whether or not it is linked to our issue here, but I thought it
might explain the fact the no menubar appears.

- I tried versions 173 and 96 of the driver and I reproduce the issue
with those versions as well.

- Attached is a xorg.conf that reproduces the issue. It is a little bit
messy. If needed I can try to simplify it to spot the issue.

Please tell me if I can provide any useful information.

(Just read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Reporting, attaching Xorg log ASAP.
I don't remember seeing anything that seemed relevant in it, though.)

(The exact package name is nvidia-glx-180, I assumed it corresponds to
nvidia-graphics-drivers-180.)

** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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[Jaunty][nvidia] TV out with separate X-screens fails
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/396937
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