| nishi | Nice to meet you | 06:31 |
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| nishi | ??? aaa... | 06:32 |
| nishi | what should i do? | 06:32 |
| animaguy | Hello. | 18:53 |
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| antivapor1 | hi! i have two monitors that are mirroring each other. there aren't any alternate options in the display settings, how do i add those options? | 23:11 |
| len-1304 | under settings look for arandr | 23:12 |
| antivapor1 | got it, have a default setting, what next? | 23:14 |
| len-1304 | If you want it to boot that way go back to setting manager and display and change anything back and forth that wil save it. | 23:15 |
| len-1304 | It 's a bit hacky right now. arandr will save a file that can be fed to xrandr at login too. | 23:16 |
| antivapor1 | do i need to save a second setting or use that script? i currently only have a single 'default' screen shown even though two monitors are connected. :) | 23:17 |
| antivapor1 | and display is same on both | 23:18 |
| len-1304 | arandr should allow you to drag one off the top of the other and position it | 23:18 |
| antivapor1 | http://i.imgur.com/EVvK3.png nobody is beneath it | 23:20 |
| len-1304 | You are right. in arandr in the outputs pull down menu does it show something that is not enabled? | 23:22 |
| len-1304 | I don't have two monitors to play with. I tested it by bringing my net book and using my desktop monitor for a bit. I'm going from memory. | 23:23 |
| len-1304 | What kind of video are you using? Which driver? | 23:24 |
| antivapor1 | the first drop says 'default' and that has 'active' checked, and then there are also resolution and orientation for output. thanks for testing btw. i suppose i might need a driver, i believe i have an AMD / ATI | 23:24 |
| antivapor1 | ah yes, same thought | 23:24 |
| len-1304 | If you are using the open source driver it should work ok. | 23:24 |
| len-1304 | if you are using the ATI closed source ones then you need the ATI utility to do things. | 23:25 |
| len-1304 | (nvidia is the saem) | 23:25 |
| len-1304 | *same | 23:25 |
| antivapor1 | nope, using open source, but maybe i should get the utility. | 23:26 |
| len-1304 | It looks like X is only seeing one monitor and the IF is just cloning it. | 23:26 |
| holstein | i had to install the proprietary driver for my nvidia to do dual head | 23:27 |
| holstein | i should test on my ati hardware, but it really is different from device to device | 23:28 |
| len-1304 | holstein, I must have been lucky :) | 23:28 |
| holstein | we cant really have a "how to" that will just work for everyone... its fiddly | 23:28 |
| holstein | OR, it can be fiddly.. sometimes it just works | 23:28 |
| len-1304 | If xrandr sees it, then things work. | 23:28 |
| holstein | len-1304: i couldnt seem to get it to "span" | 23:29 |
| antivapor1 | i used lspci -nn grep VGA to see that I have ATI RS780 [Radeon HD 3200] and RV620 [Radeon HD 3450], are these the monitors? | 23:29 |
| len-1304 | I'm not sure, I just know I could place the two side by side. | 23:29 |
| antivapor1 | Oh, i think theyre the graphics cards... | 23:30 |
| len-1304 | You have two cards? | 23:30 |
| antivapor1 | I might?? | 23:31 |
| len-1304 | You should know :) Did you put a second one in? | 23:31 |
| holstein | antivapor1: sometimes when im beating my head against the wall, i'll fire up a knoppix live CD (or puppy) configure the dual head, copy the xorg.conf and bring that back to ubuntu and tweak as needed | 23:31 |
| len-1304 | Are both monitors plugged into the same card? Is this a laptop? | 23:32 |
| holstein | antivapor1: if you look and have 2 graphics cards, then you have 2 graphics cards | 23:32 |
| len-1304 | holstein, cool what do they do different? | 23:32 |
| antivapor1 | no, i didnt put one in, but maybe there was a default one, and then a better one. Both are plugged into same card. I'm dual-booted windows and it works okay there. | 23:33 |
| holstein | len-1304: knoppix? im not sure, but sometimes it gives me another viable option and an easier place to start | 23:33 |
| len-1304 | Vanilla defaults to side by side these days | 23:34 |
| holstein | antivapor1: if you dont have the proprietary driver, i would just try that | 23:34 |
| antivapor1 | hmm, i should use fglrx and edit the xorg.conf? | 23:36 |
| len-1304 | I really don't know... It's beyond me. | 23:39 |
| len-1304 | The xsession logs may have some info. | 23:40 |
| len-1304 | /var/log/Xorg.0.log | 23:41 |
| len-1304 | Unplugging the second monitor and seeing what happens and plugging it back in. | 23:41 |
| len-1304 | If the driver is doing anything for the second monitor it should show. | 23:42 |
| antivapor1 | event9) | 23:44 |
| antivapor1 | [ 23.412] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. | 23:44 |
| antivapor1 | [ 23.412] (II) This device may have been added with another device file. | 23:44 |
| antivapor1 | [ 26649.827] (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket) | 23:44 |
| antivapor1 | [ 26649.827] (II) VESA(0): Setting up VESA Mode 0x146 (1400x1050) | 23:44 |
| len-1304 | typing xrandr in a terminal gives? | 23:47 |
| antivapor1 | event9) | 23:47 |
| antivapor1 | [ 23.412] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. | 23:47 |
| antivapor1 | [ 23.412] (II) This device may have been added with another device file. | 23:47 |
| antivapor1 | [ 26649.827] (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket) | 23:47 |
| antivapor1 | [ 26649.827] (II) VESA(0): Setting up VESA Mode 0x146 (1400x1050) | 23:47 |
| antivapor1 | woops | 23:48 |
| antivapor1 | xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default | 23:48 |
| antivapor1 | Screen 0: minimum 640 x 400, current 1400 x 1050, maximum 1400 x 1050 | 23:48 |
| antivapor1 | default connected 1400x1050+0+0 0mm x 0mm | 23:48 |
| antivapor1 | 1400x1050 0.0* | 23:48 |
| antivapor1 | 1280x1024 0.0 | 23:48 |
| antivapor1 | 1152x864 0.0 | 23:48 |
| antivapor1 | 1024x768 0.0 | 23:48 |
| antivapor1 | 800x600 0.0 | 23:48 |
| antivapor1 | 640x480 0.0 | 23:48 |
| antivapor1 | 720x400 0.0 | 23:48 |
| antivapor1 | tom@crannog:~$ ^C | 23:48 |
| len-1304 | So still only screen 0 | 23:48 |
| antivapor1 | correct | 23:49 |
| len-1304 | When I plug a second screen in I get two screen sections. | 23:49 |
| len-1304 | The "ignoring this device" seems significant to me | 23:50 |
| antivapor1 | agreed. still looking for how to install amd/ati drivers.. will update soon if i find. | 23:51 |
| antivapor1 | you know where hardware drivers manager is? | 23:54 |
| lelapin | Hi ! | 23:58 |
| antivapor1 | ah, support for my chips were dropped, cause i have 3000 series http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary | 23:58 |
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