[ubuntu-uk] Karmic dual monitor problems...

[Luke-Jennings]

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply but I have the 185 driver installed on my
laptop with a NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS 256MB graphics card. I use disper
as it is a quick means of changing screen outputs.
http://willem.engen.nl/projects/disper/ My dual screen set-up works
nicely. I did accidentally install the 173 driver but that didn't work
with my set-up. It is very good at auto detecting display resolution you
just have to run one command after login.

Luke


On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 16:28 +0000, tim.rittman at doctors.org.uk wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Good to hear lots of people are having no problems with karmic. Unfortnately I've hit a big problem. I use two monitors as two separate X servers using a geforce GTS8600 graphics card. This was working well under jaunty, but only one screen is now supported under karmic.
> 
> I've filed a bug and it looks like at least one other person has had problems with a similar card. I wonder if anyone else has struggled with this.
> 
> I've switched to debian in the meantime, but having resolution issues there!
> 
> How many people out there use dual monitors? Is the general poor support for dual monitors a conequence of the closed source nature of the graphics drivers? I would ideally like to use kde, but this doesn't support dual screens at all.
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
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