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How to manually set a special resolution?
I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit for the past short time. After a screen upgrade, I can't use/set the right resolution.
My old display setting was three 17" of 1280x1024 behind a Matrox TripleHead2GO ...
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DisplayLink usb on ubuntu 12.04 on laptop
I'd like to use a displaylink usb UGA-2k-A rev b. (dl-195) on my laptop with ubuntu 12.04
I have an Asus x53s with intel graphics and nvidia Geforce GT 520MX 1GB.
I've read a lot of posts about how to ...
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After upgrading to 13.04, plugging in external display to my laptop causes the displays to freeze randomly
I had installed 12.10 on my lenovo ideapad z560 laptop at work last week. I use it together with an external monitor and everything was working fine and then today I upgraded the distribution to ...
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While using 3 monitors, the third one just displays a TTY
I'm using the VGA and the DVI outputs of my ATI RV516 XT Radeon X1600 SE to connect two monitors, which works (finally). Now I have a third monitor and I´ve heard, that you can use your onboard VGA ...
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Graphics driver for ATI FirePro 2770 not working properly on 12.04
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04, and I'm having the following problems:
My monitor is not detected properly. In System Settings -> Display it says Laptop even though it is a desktop PC (a fairly standard ...
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Dual (Triple?) Monitor problem with QQ + Nouveau
I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 on a Dell Latitude with an NVIDIA NVS 4200m video card.
I'm trying to get it to work with 3 monitors connected: the laptop's, one connected via VGA, and another via HDMI.
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Xorg.conf 2 identical monitors one VGA one HDMI different quality
I have two identical monitors connected on my pc but only the one connected via HDMI is "fully" recognized inside nvidia-settings.
I am trying to manually "decrypt" the xorg.conf file to make the ...
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Can't detect second monitor (NVIDIA Optimus)
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 on a DELL XPS with NVIDIA Optimus. I know that questions related to this have been asked several times, and I followed many tutorials and instructions but couldn't make this ...
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How to set up two X screens for two monitors on one two-head graphics card
I would like to reference my screens using ":0.0" and ":0.1" so that I might better segregate my two desktops' work-and-play flows.
I am interested in being able to specify my apps' initial screens ...
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Dual monitor Ubuntu 12.04 - only one monitor works at a time
Let me preface this by saying I've been searching and hacking at this for a week. I've tried everything that I've ready (that I understand) on the site here and plenty of other sites. I've been a ...
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Can X.org Load Two Different Drivers? (Triple-Head Setup with Intel and NVidia Card)
We want to set up a 3 screens with an onboard intel graphics adapter and an nvidia card.
Both cards are recognized in lspci
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] ...
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Dual monitor extended desktop setup randomly falling back to mirror mode
I just have this strange behavior and couldn't find out what is wrong. Anyone ever saw this kind of error? I checked the xorg log, but wasn't able to identify any obvious error.
My setup:
Notebook ...
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XFCE Display Setup
I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 on another PC, and decided to install XFCE (by installing xubuntu-desktop)
Everything works great, except XFCE refuses to store my screen resolution and setup.
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dual monitor setup with extended desktop
I am trying to setup a dual monitor settings in ubuntu which will extend the desktop over two monitors. That means single panel, single launcher over two monitors.
Actually I was going to setup two ...
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Dual Montiors, One Stuck at 640x480
I have a dual monitor setup using the ViewSonic below as my primary and the Acer as my secondary. I'm assuming that the Acer does not send the EDID so it's not picking up on the correct native ...
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Third monitor doesnt detected in Lucid
I have trouble to madee my third display(15" DELL E151FPp, conected to nvidia via VGA cable(without driver instaled, an on motherboard graphic adapter)) work in addition to an ati pci-e card with two ...
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force dual screen in Ubuntu
I'm trying to control a Ubuntu 10.04 machine through a Windows 7 machine using Putty and Xming. Meaning, I'm sending the display from Linux to Windows through xservice.
The Ubuntu machine has only ...
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Mix AMD and Nvidia cards in X?
Is there a way to use 2 monitors on an Nvidia card and an extra monitor on an AMD card?
Acceleration would be fine, but fbdev would also suffice.
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nVidea 2nd Graphics card not detected
I have installed two video cards on my new desktop in which I installed Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 32 bit, each of the cards has both DVI and VGA. On the first video card I have 2 screens, which worked out of ...
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How to connect Xdmx and android Xserver?
I run:
$ Xdmx :1 -display 192.168.1.137:0
The output:
(II) dmx: Generation: 1
(II) dmx: DMX version: 1.2.20070424 (DMX Project)
(II) dmx: DMX Build OS: Linux ...
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Fresh install of 12.10 and 4 x monitors
I have a fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.10 running on a new Dell Precision T7600 workstation. I four Dell 30" monitors connected to a single Nvidia NVS 450 using display port cables. I was able to ...
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After removing second display: Single display setup not remembered
I recently removed one display from a dual head display setup.
Everything works fine, but after I wake up from standby the picture seems to be shifted to the left (were my second display was) about ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 multi-monitor setup isn't working
I have tried everything I can think of and can't get a multi monitor setup working. Can anyone please point me in the right direction?
My setup:
Asus G75VW with nVidia 670M (supports 3 external ...
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Two monitors connected at the same time on laptop via VGA & HDMI not working?
I have a DELL Inspiron 7520SE laptop with an AMD Radeon HD 7730M graphics cards card. I am trying to output to two monitors at the same time via VGA and HDMI. The laptop is running 12.04. The ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 triple monitors… so close!
I'm trying to set up 3 monitors using an ATI Radeon HD 5450 and an NVidia 9600 GSO. I know mixing manufacturers is not desirable, but these were the cards I had laying around. After a few days of ...
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AMD multimonitor display problem
Firstly, I just got a new AMD radeon 7870. Before I was using an Nvidia 450 gts. I have 4 monitors connected to my GPU. Via the "Additional Drivers" program I installed "ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX ...
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Configure 27" 2560x1440 for a monitor with corrupt EDID
I am trying to get a monitor work with my Ubuntu laptop. The monitor is this cheap 27" Korean monitors which has a 2560x1440 resolution -- and nothing else. Here are some specifications of this ...
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Rotating one screen with xinerama in a multihead setup
I have a dual-head setup: a "main" screen at 1920X1080, and a "secondary" screen to the right of it, rotated at 90 degrees counter-clockwise. Until Friday (26.10.2012), everything was working fine, ...
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The NVIDIA X driver is not new enough to support the nvidia-settings Display Configuration page
I've been trying without success to configure dual monitors on 12.04, I've installed the nvidia drivers but the gui tool doesn't seem to support my graphics card.
Any Idea on how to resolve this?
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Constant green screen with USB to DVI Adapter
I am trying a triplehead configuration. I already have two monitors working perfectly, but the adapter one is just green. I've done a bunch of things trying to get it to work:
Created a udev rule
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12.10 Quantal display issues using nvidiaXineramaInfoOverride
After updating to 12.10 today, my xorg.conf doesn't seem to be respected by Quantal. Not sure if this is a 'bug' or whether it's just an adjustment I have to make due to changes in the OS.
When ...
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.xsession. .xinitrc, xmonad, and lightdm
Let me preface my question with the following:
I am pretty sure that I can hack together a solution by modifying /usr/share/xsessions/somesessionfile.desktop and make it run /etc/X11/Xsession, and get ...
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Can't enable third monitor on second graphics card
I had a system running 12.04 with a Radeon HD4870, and had the monitors correctly setup. I installed a second video card (Radeo HD5700), and can't get the default Monitor app to detect the monitor.
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Does an onboard video affect the X windows configuration?
Does the onboard video on the motherboard affect the X windows configuration?
My system has onboard and pcie video. The onboard video is a NVIDIA GeForce 7025 GPU, On Board Graphic Max. Memory ...
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How to solve dual monitor issue, which happens only during X start?
When is loading and two monitors are connected, instead of a login screen I see this:
...after clicking OK, selection appears:
Then I'm following to console login, disconnecting by hand the ...
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My 2nd screen going gray after kernel upgrade to 3.2.0-30. (12.04) [closed]
My video card is nvidia GT 9400.
Same as title, I upgrade kernel from 3.2.029 to 3.2.0-30 yesterday.
After upgrade, 2nd monitor turn to gray & could not configure.
My xorg.conf is ...
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Dual Monitor with two different window managers
I have dual monitors. I have had different window managers on each monitor before. Like Gnome in one and KDE in the other. It was a nice way to show off Linux. I would like to do this again but I ...
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Enabling “AllowDualLinkModes” in xorg.conf
I'm using a GeForce GT 620 (which is dual-link compatable) and a DVI-I dual-link splitter to try to have a desktop extended onto two monitors.
At the moment when I plug in the monitors, only the ...
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How to make “xrandr” work with GMA500?
Is it error at driver of graphic chip or Xorg or kernel?
I am Asus T91mt with GMA500, Ubuntu 12.04.1.
I would like too see only a notice of connection at least.
A log of xrandr:
$ lspci | ...
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What does mean “xrandr” doesn't see second monitor?
I have plugged external monitor 17" to netbook and even have distortion picture, but xrandr doesn't see second screen, only default monitor.
GMA500 issue own of resolution is correct now by wiki ...
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External monitor does not correctly display on GMA500
Asus "T91mt" (resolution 1024x600).
External monitor 17" VGA 1280x1024.
Ubuntu 12.04.1.
GMA500.
I have solved a common gma500 issue of resolution own display, but i can't connect external monitor ...
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How do you run XBMC on nvidia dual screen and stop it from taking over the keyboard and mouse?
I have set up dual screen under Ubuntu 12.04. I have a GeForce 8500 GT and have used the nVidia control panel to set up dual screen in "Separate screen mode". Here's the resulting xorg.conf:
# ...
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Trying to use 3 monitors with Intel integrated Graphics and Separate video Card
I am currently running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a desktop that has a Intel i7 2600k with integrated Intel HD 3000 graphics and a GeForce GT430 1GB video card. I have 2 monitors (in a vertical orientation) ...
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How to define multiple xorg screens using the same device?
I have a video-adapter(Dell MMH11) that is connected to the display-port of my graphics card. The adapter identifies itself to the graphics card as a 3840x1200 display.
The adapter has two monitors ...
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Xorg server configuration fail - no screens detected
I have a serious problem with Xorg server on ubuntu 12.04 (with nvidia 420M GT card).
At home I am using an external monitor connected to my laptop's HDMI port - the external display is used as ...
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xgamma -display parameter for dual monitor setup
I want to change gamma for my first monitor. Every time I invoke xgamma with different -display parameters it somehow points to my second monitor. But I want to modify first one.
I tried these ...
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Having problems with xorg dual view and nvidia-settings
I have done a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 and installed the post-release drivers for nvidia (GT-240M) and in order to get dual view working I had to enable Twinview under gksu nvidia-settings, this ...
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Can't load x.org nvidia driver when intel gpu is enabled (3 monitor setup)
I'm trying to build a 3 monitor setup using 2 nvidia DVI outputs and 1 intel VGA onboard output. I have this weird issue that when I enable my onboard intel vga out I can't load the nvidia x.org ...
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Unable to move windows to second screen
Hooked up a second screen to the second connector of my nVidia card, set it up with nvidia-settings and it started showing my background correctly.
The X display works correctly (i.e. DISPLAY=:0.1 ...
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NVidia dual monitor set-up 11.04
I am running Ubuntu 11.04. I have an NVidia GeForce GTX 295 card installed with driver version 295.53 installed. I had struggled with this for a while a few weeks ago, and gave up. However, last week, ...
