Multiple Monitors kde 4.1 Kubuntu 8.10

[Michael Hirsch]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Brian Blater <brb.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Dean, Barry <B.Dean at liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:
>> I have two monitors, I had a devil of a time configuring them, and can't even remember what I did right to get the setup I want. But I have a problem...
>>
>> I boot up and the kdm login box is sat in the middle of a virtual monitor spanning the two screens, ie half on the right of the left hand monitor and half on the left of the right hand monitor.
>>
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> <snip>
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>> If I knew what file the config for my session lives in, maybe I could put it in the global config?
>>
>> If the fix is "wait for Jaunty and KDE 4.2.2", then I can live with it for now...
> Barry,
>
> Which video card do you have? I'm running an Nvidia 8600GTS with 8.10
> and have two monitors working now. I ran nvidia-settings and
> configured the monitors the way I wanted them. I then saved the
> xorg.conf to my home directory.  I then made a backup of the
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and copied the new xorg.conf to /etc/X11. Now,
> I get the two monitors working the way I want even after a reboot.

I have that exact issue on 8.10.  Only when logging in a second time
does the X server seem to realize there are two displays.

I have an ThinkPad W500 with an ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon
HD 3650 controller.  Lots of little things don't work quite right.
For instance, XRANDR isn't enabled, either.

Michael