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I have as basic a setup as a dual monitor can be. A laptop connected to a second display, http://uswaretech.com/dump/screenshots/screenshot_018.png http://uswar
by shabda 17y ago
I have as basic a setup as a dual monitor can be. A laptop connected to a second display, http://uswaretech.com/dump/screenshots/screenshot_018.png http://uswaretech.com/dump/screenshots/screenshot_018.png
With this Ubuntu will,
1. Get the initial display order wrong 50% of the time, (The monitor which was on the left will be on right on next startup.)
2. Wont get the the larger monitor to display in its full area, if I plug the second monitor and enable it to already running laptop, some part of display area will be blank.
Admittedly, both of these are possibly fixable via modifying xorg.conf, but if I boot to windows, it gets it right, every time, without any modifications. :(
- jacquesm 17y agoMan that's frustrating. I'm in the same boat as the other poster in this subthread, nvidia all the way and that may be why it works so well. You may want to specify your PCI devices in the xorg.conf instead of leaving it to auto detection, that is one way to lock things down.
- justin_vanw 17y agoThe reason you are having problems is that the first monitor is selected by the bios at boot time. If there is no monitor attached, it has to make the 'first' monitor the one on the laptop. If the laptop lid is closed, it may pick the external as the first monitor. Generally the easiest way to get this done is to have nvidia graphics and use nvidia-settings. If you have some less well supported graphics setup, welcome to the world of linux!