Dual Monitor setup?

quotidian · 12 Feb 2013 at 10:12

Spec:

3570k
z77-d3h
amd 7850

I've got 2 monitors and both of them use vga ports.

So in windows I just put one connector into the motherboard vga slot and the other into the graphics card vga slot. However I tried this and linux doesn't detect the monitor connected to the mother board.

I've tried installing both the amd and intel drivers but it still only uses the monitor connected to the graphics card?

Armageus · 12 Feb 2013 at 10:20

Have you enabled the IGPU setting in the BIOS?

quotidian · 12 Feb 2013 at 10:22

Armageus said:
Have you enabled the IGPU setting in the BIOS?

I've got it set to "AUTO" which enables both of them as windows is able to use the IGPU and discrete gpu.

Essexraptor · 12 Feb 2013 at 23:40

a neater solution may be to use a dvi to vga adapter and run both monitors off the 7850 and disable the onboard graphics?

Feesh · 12 Feb 2013 at 23:48

I've had issues using 2 x monitors in my single overclocked amd card. The second monitor suffers from an annoying flicker. This is only when OC'd mind.

Essexraptor · 12 Feb 2013 at 23:56

Feesh said:
I've had issues using 2 x monitors in my single overclocked amd card. The second monitor suffers from an annoying flicker. This is only when OC'd mind.

hear u

windows? or linux?

we are running older Gen cards than this fella.... albeit mine can handle 3 without a flicker (I'm only running 2 at the mo under windows because I normally have my linux running on the 3rd at the same time from my alt rig)

uvarvu · 15 Feb 2013 at 06:31

I had to remove my second monitor because the mouse cursor becomes corrupted but only on the secondary screen. Checked the logs and saw that fglrx had crashed. It's fine with a single screen though. Running Kubuntu 12.10 on a box which started with 11.04 and has been updated biannually since so maybe it is time to reinstall.