Where's the extended Screen [was: First no extended screen, now my password doesn't match]

[jb]

Hi Josph,

hereby my report.

1. I installed _Ubuntustudio 12.10_, which ran absolutely fine,
     incl. a second monitor _as a clone_ from a 32GiB USB-stick, which
     was not the same stick where the downloaded image.iso
     was installed (a 16 GiB-stick)
     I was missing the second monitor _as an extended one_, but only
     the clone screen was available.
     Then after some queries with _Xserver_ and
_randr_ and some restarts Ubuntu forgot my user
     Password. Password changing with shift-key at the grube-prompt
     didn't work - a new password wasn't accepted.

2. After that,  I yesterdy installed _Ubuntustudio 12.04.2 LTS_
     on the reformatted same USB-Stick like 12.10 before.
     No error message apeared, but while the install procedure
     Ubuntu said the medium (16 GiB) from which I was starting the
     install procedure is damaged and stopped the install procedure.
     An errormessage was sent somewhere in the net. It was always the same
    dilemma whether I tried the Stick prepared for persistant mode or not.

3. Running 12.04.2 LTS in Life-mode I couldn't find an extended Monitor, 
too.

4. A Hardware check of the 16 GiB-Stick (Fat32) under Win7 couldn't not 
find any error.

Where's the extended Monitor to be found?

CU
Jürgen




Am 03.04.2013 19:49, schrieb jb:
> Hi Joseph,
>
> oh sh*t, looking for the version of my Ubuntu I saw
> that I didn't install 12.04 but 12.10
> Thank you for your help.
> I'll change the system now and give you report after.
>
> CU
> Jürgen
>
>
> Am 03.04.2013 13:03, schrieb Joseph Ronne:
>> Have had the same problem in 12.10 and 13.04 but works fine in 12.04 
>> and 12.04.2
>> Difference seems to be Kfce and does it see the correct driver and 
>> second monitor..
>> In my case this driver is Nvidia 304.48
>> ArandR and 'display' in settings may show the second monitor in some 
>> cases but the values are bad if the wrong driver is in place..
>> Sysinfo from the software center may tell you if your system is 
>> seeing the right display information.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:18 AM, jb <jb at bronnen.belwue.de 
>> <mailto:jb at bronnen.belwue.de>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hallo,
>>     I'm new on this board and if I'm wrong here, sorry please, kindly
>>     drop me line.
>>
>>     _My entry._
>>     I know Linux since the late 80ies but I did not work continously
>>     work with it, because it was  mostly for me to difficult to handle.
>>     You see I'm not a real Newby, but I got more and more sick of beeing
>>     the administrator rather than an operator who wanted to work with
>>     Linux.
>>
>>     Another reason was that Linux - from Redhat over Suse and Debian
>>     to Ubuntu
>>     - never provided a pleasant enviroment  for me  and especially
>>     for the applications
>>     I wanted to run (Officeapps, Mediaapps). So far ....
>>     Since I'm now in retirement I find that there is no more reason
>>     to hold
>>     an expensive and extremly  by it's provider controlled OS  on my
>>     Computer
>>     I decided to make another trial with Linux, Ubuntustudio 12.04, KDE
>>
>>     _My issue_
>>     Hardware: Thinkpad ( Lenovo X61T )
>>     OS:             Ubuntustudio 12.04 running with KDE installed on
>>     USB-stick, 32 GiB
>>                        with nearly 22 GiB free space) (no Live-Version)
>>     Aim:           Running a second screen as an extended and not as
>>     a clone
>>
>>     First impression: easy to install, even the printer!!!! That was
>>     really new for me
>>                                    and raised hopes.
>>
>>     But all my trials to run an extended screen got fail and were
>>     ending to a Clone and
>>     after some investigations in the net and some queries with the
>>     Xserver and randr I couldn't solve my problem. I do not really
>>     remember whether
>>     I changed a parameter, but when I started my Ubuntu next day,
>>     Ubuntu doesn't
>>     rember  or accept my password.
>>
>>     Who can help me a) with the password lock and b) with the
>>     extended screen?
>>
>>     Regards
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