Dual head problem on Maverick Beta

[Colin Law]

On 22 September 2010 12:11, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> 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.

Obviously my launchpad searching technique is not up to scratch, I am
sure it is the same problem.  I will give the ppa a go.

Thanks

Colin

>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>