Dual monitor (LCD) support

Steve beachie41 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 12 14:19:29 UTC 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Smith" <mikeosmith at gmail.com>
To: "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:53 PM
Subject: Re: Dual monitor (LCD) support


> On Apr 12, 2005 9:05 AM, Steve <beachie41 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've installed 5.04 on a desktop. All went well except for enabling dual monitor 
>> support.
>> I've a Radeon 9700 Pro with 2 LCD's hanging of it. At the moment I have 2  cloned
>> desktops, whereas I'd like to have 2 seperate workspaces ala Win XP. Even just having 
>> one
>> large desktop would be OK. For me, a cloned desktop is useless. I've tried many 
>> different
>> xorg.conf combo's as per Ubuntu forum suggestions & google searches but to no avail. 
>> Does
>> anyone have any ideas or even better a working config for 2 x LCD & a 9XXXX card?
>> Thanks
>>
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>
> I used this: https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/XineramaHowTo on my
> laptop with Warty to enable my laptop LCD and external LCD. Upgraded
> to Hoary without a hitch and the XF86Config-4 transitioned to
> xorg.conf without a problem. I'll post my config if it will help.
>
> --
> Mike
>


Hi Mike,
I had tried modifying that config but my attempt fell over. Would appreciate if you could 
post yours.
cheers,
Steve 





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