Help with display management

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Sun Jul 5 17:51:36 UTC 2015


On 5 July 2015 at 18:45, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> There's only one user I can log in as.  Of course I could create one, but it seems unlikely to help.


Does Xubuntu not provide a Guest login?

Colin

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> Here's my sign: the same two monitors show the GRUB menu, but not the third one.  What's up with that?
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> I just noticed how odd this is, and I'm going to try installing GRUB from the OS that sees all three just to see if it makes a difference.
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> On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 4 July 2015 at 23:56, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > I'm running xubuntu 14.04 LTS, and have just replaced my mobo and graphics card with a new ASUS Z97 deluxe with onboard graphics.  The old card was nVidia, the mobo uses Intel graphics.
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>> > When I restarted the machine after the mobo-ectomy, xubuntu would only recognize 2 of my 3 monitors.  The mobo advertises it can support 3 with resolutions up 'way beyond my actual HD monitors.  I created some space, and installed a fresh copy of xubuntu 14.-4.2.  It works fine.  I've removed all nVidia things from the old system, but it's still broken.
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>> One thing to try is logging on as a different user (or Guest).  If
>> that helps then it is something in the user's config rather than a
>> system issue.
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>> Colin
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