Hi all, I posted this on the forums yesterday, but haven't had much luck. I was wondering if anyone here could help.
I am trying to set up dual monitors in Ubuntu, with the two monitors having different resolutions. One monitor is on my laptop and the other is an external monitor. I have an ATI Radeon express 200m doing the graphics. For the two monitors i would like to have one showing at 1280x800 and the other at 1280x1024. At the moment the resolution has defaulted to 1024x768. I have seen a number of threads detailing this problem, but none seem to solve my issue. Here is a run down of how far i have gotten on different fronts. 1. Talks about editing xorg.conf. - The problem here is that i don't seem to have an xorg.conf file in /usr/share/X11. When I "locate xorg.conf" in the terminal i get: /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-evdev-quirks.conf /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-vmmouse.conf /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-wacom.conf /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/51-synaptics-quirks.conf /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/examples/xorg.conf /usr/share/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz As such i am not sure which file to try and edit. 2. Try changing resolution on one of the monitors in ~/.config/monitors.xml, which is where i got the unity dock to only show on the primary monitor. - Here, after i saved the changes to ~/.config/monitors.xml, and logged out, i got an error message saying that the resolution would not work as i logged in. Both monitors then came up as they were initially. When i looked at ~/.config/monitors.xml, i saw that the resolutions had reverted back to what they were originally. 3. Talks about editing xrandr, linking to this page http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-change...ng-xrandr.html - This looks incredibly intimidating and i can't really work out what to do in my case. Any advice would be much appreciated. 4. I think is a GUI method for the solution offered by 3 (above). This involves trying to 'configure display settings' in 'monitor preferences'. Here i can change the resolution of each monitor quite easily. This works and the resolution is perfect. The problem though is once i have set the resolution to what i want for both monitors, they begin to behave strangely. Most notable is that when i close things they don't disappear off the screen (although they appear to have closed), the unity dock smears on the screen when it minimizes and mouse pointer labels show up and then don't disappear. So i am now stumped. If anyone can tell me either how to sort the resolution, interpret the xrandr instructions or fix the screen smearing i would be very grateful. Thanks, james. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
