Multi-monitor - problem with rotation

The name of the pictureThe name of the pictureThe name of the pictureClash Royale CLAN TAG#URR8PPP








up vote
0
down vote

favorite












I have Dell XPS 15 9560 hooked up with two external monitors through docking station (TB-16) and I am running Linux Mint 18 with 4.15 kernel.



I use the monitors and also the notebook screen. Everything runs smoothly until I try to set rotation on one of the monitors as I want to have it in portrait mode. When I try to set this through Display GUI settings, I get error Could not set configuration for crtc 64. I tried to set it up through xrandr and there I get error configure crtc 0 failed.



I know it is possible as I managed to get it work few times, but it was very random, after several hours of trying different combinations and so far I was not able to tell the common cause for this.



During debugging I tried to upgrade the Nvidia drivers which now shows in the "Driver manager", but I have feeling that I am still running Nouveau drivers even though in the manager there are active the Nvidia drivers. I think so because when run lsmod | grep nouveau I get results but not so for lsmod | grep nvidia.



Can it be because of not running on Nvidia drivers? Can there be any other cause for this? Please, help...










share|improve this question

























    up vote
    0
    down vote

    favorite












    I have Dell XPS 15 9560 hooked up with two external monitors through docking station (TB-16) and I am running Linux Mint 18 with 4.15 kernel.



    I use the monitors and also the notebook screen. Everything runs smoothly until I try to set rotation on one of the monitors as I want to have it in portrait mode. When I try to set this through Display GUI settings, I get error Could not set configuration for crtc 64. I tried to set it up through xrandr and there I get error configure crtc 0 failed.



    I know it is possible as I managed to get it work few times, but it was very random, after several hours of trying different combinations and so far I was not able to tell the common cause for this.



    During debugging I tried to upgrade the Nvidia drivers which now shows in the "Driver manager", but I have feeling that I am still running Nouveau drivers even though in the manager there are active the Nvidia drivers. I think so because when run lsmod | grep nouveau I get results but not so for lsmod | grep nvidia.



    Can it be because of not running on Nvidia drivers? Can there be any other cause for this? Please, help...










    share|improve this question























      up vote
      0
      down vote

      favorite









      up vote
      0
      down vote

      favorite











      I have Dell XPS 15 9560 hooked up with two external monitors through docking station (TB-16) and I am running Linux Mint 18 with 4.15 kernel.



      I use the monitors and also the notebook screen. Everything runs smoothly until I try to set rotation on one of the monitors as I want to have it in portrait mode. When I try to set this through Display GUI settings, I get error Could not set configuration for crtc 64. I tried to set it up through xrandr and there I get error configure crtc 0 failed.



      I know it is possible as I managed to get it work few times, but it was very random, after several hours of trying different combinations and so far I was not able to tell the common cause for this.



      During debugging I tried to upgrade the Nvidia drivers which now shows in the "Driver manager", but I have feeling that I am still running Nouveau drivers even though in the manager there are active the Nvidia drivers. I think so because when run lsmod | grep nouveau I get results but not so for lsmod | grep nvidia.



      Can it be because of not running on Nvidia drivers? Can there be any other cause for this? Please, help...










      share|improve this question













      I have Dell XPS 15 9560 hooked up with two external monitors through docking station (TB-16) and I am running Linux Mint 18 with 4.15 kernel.



      I use the monitors and also the notebook screen. Everything runs smoothly until I try to set rotation on one of the monitors as I want to have it in portrait mode. When I try to set this through Display GUI settings, I get error Could not set configuration for crtc 64. I tried to set it up through xrandr and there I get error configure crtc 0 failed.



      I know it is possible as I managed to get it work few times, but it was very random, after several hours of trying different combinations and so far I was not able to tell the common cause for this.



      During debugging I tried to upgrade the Nvidia drivers which now shows in the "Driver manager", but I have feeling that I am still running Nouveau drivers even though in the manager there are active the Nvidia drivers. I think so because when run lsmod | grep nouveau I get results but not so for lsmod | grep nvidia.



      Can it be because of not running on Nvidia drivers? Can there be any other cause for this? Please, help...







      nvidia graphics xorg multiple-monitors






      share|improve this question













      share|improve this question











      share|improve this question




      share|improve this question










      asked Feb 2 at 10:21









      AuHau

      113




      113

























          active

          oldest

          votes











          Your Answer







          StackExchange.ready(function()
          var channelOptions =
          tags: "".split(" "),
          id: "89"
          ;
          initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);

          StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function()
          // Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
          if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled)
          StackExchange.using("snippets", function()
          createEditor();
          );

          else
          createEditor();

          );

          function createEditor()
          StackExchange.prepareEditor(
          heartbeatType: 'answer',
          convertImagesToLinks: true,
          noModals: false,
          showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
          reputationToPostImages: 10,
          bindNavPrevention: true,
          postfix: "",
          onDemand: true,
          discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
          ,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
          );



          );













           

          draft saved


          draft discarded


















          StackExchange.ready(
          function ()
          StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2faskubuntu.com%2fquestions%2f1002337%2fmulti-monitor-problem-with-rotation%23new-answer', 'question_page');

          );

          Post as a guest



































          active

          oldest

          votes













          active

          oldest

          votes









          active

          oldest

          votes






          active

          oldest

          votes















           

          draft saved


          draft discarded















































           


          draft saved


          draft discarded














          StackExchange.ready(
          function ()
          StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2faskubuntu.com%2fquestions%2f1002337%2fmulti-monitor-problem-with-rotation%23new-answer', 'question_page');

          );

          Post as a guest













































































          Popular posts from this blog

          pylint3 and pip3 broken

          Missing snmpget and snmpwalk

          How to enroll fingerprints to Ubuntu 17.10 with VFS491