Ubuntu 9.10 Dual Head setup

[Robert Kiwanuka]

2009/11/3 Fred Roller <froller at tnclimited.com>

> Robert Kiwanuka wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > This is becoming an increasingly disturbing problem. When I try to set
> > up dual head  (from System > Preferences > Display) I run into the
> > following problems:
> >
> > 1. Whatever the change I make, if I select Apply the screen freezes
> > and the _only_ solution is to power off.
> >
> > 2. The default is to mirror screens but I want One large desktop.
> > There is seemingly no way to change this default behaviour.
> >
> > 3. I work at on least three different laptops each of them needing to
> > use  a different second monitor depending on where I take it. For some
> > monitors after selecting the relevant resolutions, it will freeze but,
> > after restarting it will be configured as desired. But for some it
> > insists on mirroring the monitors at boot, which means I cannot use
> > any alternatives!
> >
> > 4. If I start a laptop  _and then_ connect the second head then go to
> > System> Preferences>Display  to enable it, it _always_ just freezes.
> > Solution is again powering off, which means any work i was doing
> > before that is lost!
> >
> > 5. Whenever I connect the second head, the resolution of the primary
> > one is automatically modified so that windows no longer fit well on it
> > (and this happens for the secondary one too). In the Display dialog it
> > thus becomes difficult to select the options (Apply/Close). In my case
> > I have to rely on the fact that I know what keyboard shortcut to use
> > in this situation, but what does everyone else do is such cases - I'm
> > assuming that other people have had this as it has been repeated on
> > all my laptops so far.
> >
> > 6. Sometimes I'm asked if I want to keep the configuration or return
> > to the previous but sometimes not! Why?
> >
> > 7. I no longer have a good xorg.conf to refer to in order to set what
> > I want with out the GUI interface!
> >
> > Any ideas on how to sort any of that out? Does anyone have a working
> > xorg.conf where they have manually determined the
> > display/monitor/screen settings. I would rather play with that suffer
> > with the GUI where nothing is certain.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Robert
> I don't know how applicable this may be but - with similar issues on
> setting up the second monitor (I use the nvidia interface) it turned out
> a need for running the manager as root. i.e.
>
>    gksu gnome-display-properties
>
>
Tried it. Did not change the outcome but at least it did not freeze time
round.



> then before saving removing the old xorg file (actually changing the
> name, paranoid that way.):
>
>    sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.jic
>
> the removal forces a rewrite with new configs and the changes applied to
> the different monitors I connected.  I eventually edited the menu icon
> properties to run as root so I could use the menu item to make changes.
> Don't know if this will help but at least it could enlighten you to a
> solution.
>
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>
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Thanks
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