dual screen fun..

cooljimy84 · 28 Aug 2009 at 14:21

Hi,
here is a fun one for you. I have a copy of Ubuntu 9.04 with 2.6.28-15 kernal and GNOME 2.26.1.
I am also one of the people that has problems with Intel graphics drivers, so i am running the old 8.10 drivers for it, compiz works amazingly (i know thats not a work!)

My problem is when i connect a second monitor i get the problem that i had when i trying running compiz on the new drivers, the screen goes all white, everything the taskbar, icons, mouse the cube when i rotate it. you can't see any thing you are clicking on, but the system does respond (i.e. i press ctrl alt down arrow and the white blob (my desktop) zooms out and pages round to the next white blob...

Does any one have an idea how to solve this ?

My 2 cents: It looks like when i try and use dual monitors that the system uses the new graphics drivers, I have not removed compiz to test if this is correct (as compiz on the new drivers did the same thing to my desktop) - i'm lazy and don't want to have to write down each setting for compiz before disabling it...

Please help ! i wanna have dual screens....

.walls · 28 Aug 2009 at 14:29

That doesn't sound right.

How are you configuring the dual screen?

In xorg.conf, under the "Device" section will be your gfx card and it will only have one driver associated with it... for the dual screen setup, make sure it's the right driver.

cooljimy84 · 28 Aug 2009 at 14:32

erm, not been that far in to Linux before, i'll go on a hunt and see if i can find where it is...

cooljimy84 · 28 Aug 2009 at 14:34

after all the #ed out text this is all i have

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

.walls · 29 Aug 2009 at 15:13

wow... so not much to that, you're mostly using defaults by the looks of it. How have you specified what driver to use? I would have thought if your xorg is looking like that, it's probably using the vesa driver (which is a generic one for all hardware).

How did you configure the dual monitor? are you using some kind of gui tool? I haven't dual headed for a while, but when I was doing it, I configured it through xorg.conf.

Have a look at these links. The second one down looks like it's exactly what you need.