Dual Display problems in 12.10 and Raring

[Ric Moore]

On 03/04/2013 07:05 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 4 March 2013 15:55, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> When the left hand display is a small laptop screen and the right hand
>> is a large external monitor then the best place is on the left edge of
>> the right hand display, the extra length of the launcher is a big
>> benefit..  This works perfectly except for the regression in Raring
>> that, with the launcher on the RH display, one cannot place items on
>> the desktop on the left hand display.  I was just hoping someone could
>> confirm the bug for me.
>
> Ah, I see.
>
> Well, in that case, the simplest answer would seem to be to physically
> rearrange laptop and monitor.
>
> As with my own experience with 12.10, in which the nVidia driver no
> longer allows you to enter a screen resolution - you must pick from
> the list it has autodetected.

I'm running 12.10 and I can open nvidia X server settings and pick 
resolutions from the second tab, "X Server Display Configuration", under 
Resolution.

> I use CRTs from preference: 2 × 21" Dell Trinitrons. One was connected
> via a BNC cable. This does not carry EDID data from screen to graphics
> card, so the driver /can't/ detect any screen modes.

Ah, well there you have it.
>
> Some research & asking around indicated that there was no way around
> this, so I had to go and get another VGA-VGA cable and replace my
> VGA-BNC cable, with concomitant slight degradation in picture quality.
>
> That's progress for you.

It just thinks it's smarter than you, is all. :) Ric



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