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How do I setup a monitor for my laptop?

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denisdbm
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Hi all

I am in trouble to setup an extra monitor for my laptop. I am using Opensuse Tumbleweed with KDE 5 Plasma. I have two graphic cards:
* An Intel card (onboard/default)
* A NVIDIA GeForce GTX Mobile Ti 1050 (I have installed the NVIDIA driver)

My xorg.conf is

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# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 515.65.01


Section "ServerLayout"
     Identifier     "Layout0"
     Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
     Screen      1  "intel" RightOf "Screen0"
     #Screen      0  "intel"
     #Screen      1  "Screen0" RightOf "intel"
     InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
     InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
     #Option         "Xinerama"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
     # generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/mouse"
     Identifier     "Mouse0"
     Driver         "mouse"
     Option         "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
     Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
     Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
     Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

     # generated from default
     Identifier     "Keyboard0"
     Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

#1st screen

Section "Device"
    Identifier "intel"
    #Driver "modesetting"
    Driver "i915"
    BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "intel"
    Device "intel"
    DefaultDepth    24
EndSection

#2nd screen

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection


If I try use both screens (across many options and tries...), I experienced some types of problems:
* Entire X11 system doesn't work. It fallbacks to the text mode interface (wrong configuration or with Xinerama enabled)
* If I use "intel" as the primary screen: the other one is recognized as a black screen. Just that. I can move cursor on it, but i can't open windows or use it as a Desktop
* If I use "nvidia" as the primary screen: the other one isn't recognized. Just a "dead screen".

Can you help me? I accept instructions about to use Wayland too. Thanks


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