Multiple Monitors kde 4.1 Kubuntu 8.10

[Dean, Barry]

Mmm. Forgot to say, I have an ATI Radeon X1300/X1550 Series card in a Dell OptiPlex 745.

It's using the ATI proprietary FGLRX graphics card.

The combination Dell/ATI seems to be the common factor!

This Dell has a poxy half height PCI expansion area. Can anyone recommend a cheap nvidia card that would fit this machine! I am sorely tempted to upgrade the machine myself to get this working!

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Barry Dean
Networks Team
http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~bvd/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: kubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:kubuntu-users-
> bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Michael Hirsch
> Sent: 07 April 2009 20:08
> To: Kubuntu Help and User Discussions
> Subject: Re: Multiple Monitors kde 4.1 Kubuntu 8.10
> 
> 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.
> >>
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >> 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
> 
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