On 10 August 2011 12:00, James Morrissey <morrissey.jam...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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,
Here's how to create a "blank" xorg.conf, from my blog, in case that helps: http://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/20637.html But first, try the ATI proprietary drivers. -- Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
