Bug#639009: nvidia-settings: freezes when enabling TwinView

[Andreas Beckmann]

Have you tried nvidia-settings from the latest beta driver, too?
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-285.03-driver.html

On 2011-08-24 22:15, Adrian Reyer wrote:
> works: 270.41.19 and 270.41.19-no-compat32
> fails: 275.09 275.09-no-compat32

They changed a lot between these two versions ...

$ diff -ur nvidia-settings-270.41.19 nvidia-settings-275.09.07 | diffstat
 src/common-utils/nvgetopt.h           |    8
 src/gtk+-2.x/ctkcolorcontrols.c       |   12
 src/gtk+-2.x/ctkdisplayconfig-utils.c | 1073 +++++++++++++++++--------------
 src/gtk+-2.x/ctkdisplayconfig-utils.h |    6
 src/gtk+-2.x/ctkdisplayconfig.c       | 1173 ++++++++++++++--------------------
 src/gtk+-2.x/ctkdisplayconfig.h       |   15
 src/gtk+-2.x/ctkdisplaylayout.c       |  470 ++++++-------
 src/gtk+-2.x/ctkdisplaylayout.h       |   26
 src/gtk+-2.x/ctkditheringcontrols.c   |   28
 src/gtk+-2.x/ctkevent.c               |    6
 src/gtk+-2.x/ctkimagesliders.c        |   10
 src/gtk+-2.x/ctkpowermizer.c          |    4
 src/gtk+-2.x/ctkslimm.c               |   13
 src/libXNVCtrl/NVCtrl.h               |   65 +
 src/libXNVCtrl/libXNVCtrl.a           |binary
 src/libXNVCtrl/nv_control.h           |    3
 src/parse.c                           |   10
 src/parse.h                           |    3
 src/query-assign.c                    |  153 ++--
 version.mk                            |    2
 20 files changed, 1599 insertions(+), 1481 deletions(-)

You should open a new thread in the nvidia forum that is specifically about the nvidia-settings program no longer working in the recent releases - it's not a driver problem as you are able to enable twinview with the older binaries on recent drivers.

Andreas