One of those traditional "I'm a user of abc, trying out xyz" articles. This time, a Mac user tries Ubuntu 8.10, and concludes: "Linux has come a long way, but it's not totally ready for the mom and pop folks, in my opinion. In the two days of testing, with two occasions it refused to load the graphic drivers and I could not enjoy Compiz. I found a tutorial which taught me how to modify xorg.conf to load XGL (I suspect that messing with the resolution of the second screen might have overwritten the xorg.conf file). Even so, I'd say Ubuntu 8.10 is a fantastic operating system. I guess it may take a while to tweak an Ubuntu installation to perfection, especially for more demanding users. I will recommend Ubuntu to everyone who can't afford a Mac, are not into heavy media content creation or hard-core gaming."
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Member since:2006-01-28
I have an intel card and have had a hell of a time trying to get xrand to play nice with my dual monitor set up.
I have a medion akoya mini and I want to clone the laptop to an external monitor, so that they both show the same content at different resolutions, but I have been unable to get it to work.
The only way it work is if I bring the resolution on the laptop and external monitor down to 800x600. Instead, what i want is to have the internal laptop use its native 1024x600 resolution and the external monitor use its 1680x1024 resolution. is this possible and does anybody know how to get it to work?
Member since:2006-10-11
Member since:2006-01-10
Well, theoretically, you should be able to just go up under System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution and then click Detect Displays.
This is new to Gnome 2.24 (well, the fact that it now supports the new xrandr 1.2)
Test it out, I'm curious if it works well for you.
I managed to get multi-monitors working on a Thinkpad for the VP at the company I work for. It's also using an Intel Graphics Adapter. That was on Ubuntu 8.04
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2006-01-10
Multi-monitor mode has come a LONG way in the very recent past. So it's a bit buggy still, and not all drivers (I'm looking at you nVidia and AMD/ATI) support the coolness of xrandr. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it) I have a nVidia card, and it has it's own Multi-monitor goodness that works quite well and is easy to set up. Compiz, for what it's worth, is still very picky on multi-monitor set ups.