On Sun, 1 Nov 2015 21:25:45 +0100, Mauro Condarelli <mc5...@mclink.it> wrote:
> Hi, > I am struggling to make work my new Debian Squezze installation on my > workhorse. Problem is X setup and its interaction with desktops. > > I have two VGAs: > * intel embedded in my i7 CPU > * external NVidia GTX770 > Each of them drives 2 monitors for a grand total of 4. > > I managed to have partial victory in the sense: > I can have dual monitor using *either* intel *or* nvidia > or I can have all four, but then gnome crashes somehow ("Oh no! Something > went wrong...") while X is ok. In the "working" cases xrandr dees only the > two active monitors. I also installed Xfce which works happily with the same > config where Gnome crashes, but shows only the nvidia monitors with mirroring > and xrandr does not work at all. > > I am now writing from Win7 (with all monitors correctly working!) and thus I > have no access to actual files. > > Can someone point me in the right direction, please? Use at least Debian 8, for a start.