Dual head problem on Maverick Beta

[Colin Law]

On 22 September 2010 12:37, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

The updates from the ppa fixed it, I will update the bug.  Surely
Maverick will not release with this unfixed.

Thanks Alan

Colin