[wplug] Dual monitors in Ubuntu Karmic Koala

[Jason Freshwater]

I am currently running an out to my tv and Monitor at the same time, with an
nvidia card and use an xorg.conf file in order to accomplish this.  If X
sees one, it will override automatic settings.

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Ben Beige <dariuscardren at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've got either a Matrox or ATI card, int the long run I'd prefer the
> ATI cards since it's a better card. The ATI Binary driver/utility was
> not much help when I installed it, it kept saying no ATI cards
> detected while lspci showed both the primary and secondary portions of
> the ATI card. Interesting side note, the ATI card shows up as 2
> devices and the Martrox shows up as one.
>
>
> Ben Beige
> dariuscardren at gmail.com
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Patrick Weber <paw160 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I have run into a similar problem with a laptop running Karmic.
> >
> > Karmic doesn't normally use the xorg.conf file.  Instead it likes to use
> > xrandr.  This is great for dynamic situations like switching between
> laptop
> > mode and docked mode.  Unfortunately this does not support any
> acceleration
> > (at least not for my video card) so you don't get pretty screen effects
> or
> > anything.
> >
> > I installed the nvidia drivers to get the 3D acceleration.  The nvidia
> > driver installs its own configuration utility which is pretty easy to
> use.
> > This DOES use the xorg.conf file.  I did run into all kinds of goofy
> > problems with it not being able to write to the xorg.conf etc.  This
> worked
> > great for a static situation, as in I can have either my desktop monitor
> > working or the laptop screen working but it can't figure out how to
> switch
> > automatically between the two.  Now every time I dock or undock I have to
> > first go into the nvidia settings and set up the configuration I want,
> then
> > dock or undock the machine.  Very frustrating.
> >
> > Back to what you were after... the nvidia settings utility did a nice job
> > configuring dual monitors (if you have nvidia hardware...).  I have not
> > tried dual monitors without the nvidia driver.
> >
> > -Pat
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Ben Beige <dariuscardren at gmail.com>
> > To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
> > Sent: Mon, February 1, 2010 10:18:48 AM
> > Subject: [wplug] Dual monitors in Ubuntu Karmic Koala
> >
> > Greetings Everyone,
> > I'm getting off on a bad foot with my "new" Linux box. I am trying to
> > get dual monitors to work properly, in Xinarama. And it seems that
> > firstly I was having issues since there was no xorg.conf, a design
> > feature I am told, to allow for quick dynamic configuration of video.
> > I've tried with 2 different AGP Cards a Matrox G450, which I had
> > working in dual screen mode under Debian Etch not that long ago, and a
> > ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 9600. The Matrox Mirrors the screens in X,
> > but only detects one "Unknown" monitor. And the Radeon mirrors when
> > not in X, and detects the monitor on the primary connection. I am
> > using 2 NEC 2010x monitors (20"LCDs). We have tried to build an
> > xorg.conf that would allow both displays to work and have little luck
> > beyond defining cards and monitors that X dose not seem to notice. Has
> > anyone had much luck with multiple monitors in Karmic? I can include
> > the config files we've created, or the defaults created by an X
> > -configure if needed.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ben Beige
> > dariuscardren at gmail.com
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Jason Freshwater
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