Dual head problem on Maverick Beta

Alan Pope alan at popey.com
Wed Sep 22 11:11:04 UTC 2010


On 22 September 2010 11:39, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Is anyone else seeing a problem with dual monitors on Maverick Beta?
> If I set non-mirrored mode so the desktop extends across the two
> monitors and the total width of the two displays is greater than 2048
> (or thereabouts) then only a portion of the second display is used
> (getting clamped to 2048 I think) and on logout/in it gets very
> confused.  I have submitted a bug [1].  It would be interesting to
> know if anyone else has tried this and if so whether they can confirm
> that it either works for them or does not.  It seems rather late in
> the day for such a serious bug, unless it is specific to something on
> my system.
>

Looks similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/619663 which I filed
a while ago. I would try the xorg-edgers PPA and see if that fixes it.

Cheers,
Al.




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