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hi,i need help setting up dual monitors. currently there just mirrors and i want the one big screen layout.thanks
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hi,i need help setting up dual monitors. currently there just mirrors and i want the one big screen layout.thanks
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i was there before but it didnt make sense to me and im a bit of a noob. thats why i posted this.
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godtuti ,
what is your graphics card (execute lspci on the command line), graphics driver, contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?
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godtuti, There are a bunch of threads on this. Please search the forum before posting.
Also, you have not given any information about your setup. It is highly unlikely that anyone is going to be of any help without that information.
Information about what your graphics card is and what drivers you use for it or what DE/WM you use
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Information about what your graphics card is and what drivers you use for it or what DE/WM you use
I would add that ALL of the above would be helpful, as well as whether or not the OP wants compositing or not.
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my card is a intel 82865g integrated graphics controller (rev 02) the driver i think is the xf86-video-intel and i tried to nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf and its empty
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godtuti, There are a bunch of threads on this. Please search the forum before posting.
Also, you have not given any information about your setup. It is highly unlikely that anyone is going to be of any help without that information.
Information about what your graphics card is and what drivers you use for it or what DE/WM you use
i know my info was very lacking but i was planning on people asking for what they needed.. and my wm is fluxbox no de
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Inxsible wrote:Information about what your graphics card is and what drivers you use for it or what DE/WM you use
I would add that ALL of the above would be helpful, as well as whether or not the OP wants compositing or not.
OP?
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The simplest way you can use dual monitors is by using xrandr. Find out the names of your outputs using that command and then accordingly set them up. More info is on the wiki or in numerous threads.
xrandr
Once you know your outputs, then you can set them up using
xrandr --output <output1> --auto --right-of <output0>
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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The simplest way you can use dual monitors is by using xrandr. Find out the names of your outputs using that command and then accordingly set them up. More info is on the wiki or in numerous threads.
xrandr
Once you know your outputs, then you can set them up using
xrandr --output <output1> --auto --right-of <output0>
xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 2048 x 2048
VGA1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 304mm x 228mm
1024x768 60.0*+ 75.1 70.1
800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
640x480 72.8 75.0 60.0
720x400 70.1
Thats the output. can you tell me what i need to run to get this working?
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xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 2048 x 2048
VGA1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 304mm x 228mm
1024x768 60.0*+ 75.1 70.1
800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
640x480 72.8 75.0 60.0
720x400 70.1
Thats the output. can you tell me what i need to run to get this working?
You don't even have two monitors !!
or is this a laptop and the LVDS never shows up ?
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godtuti wrote:xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 2048 x 2048
VGA1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 304mm x 228mm
1024x768 60.0*+ 75.1 70.1
800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
640x480 72.8 75.0 60.0
720x400 70.1
Thats the output. can you tell me what i need to run to get this working?You don't even have two monitors !!
or is this a laptop and the LVDS never shows up ?
its a desktop and yes i have two monitors a acer al1715 and a dell on the right. there both displaying the same thing.
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its a desktop and yes i have two monitors a acer al1715 and a dell on the right. there both displaying the same thing.
My xrandr shows me this for the 2 monitors that I have connected
╔═[14:46]═[inxs @ wolfdale]
╚═══===═══[~]>> xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2960 x 1050, maximum 8192 x 8192
DIN disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-0 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 433mm x 271mm
1680x1050 60.0*+
1280x1024 75.0 60.0
1440x900 59.9
1280x800 59.8
1152x864 75.0
1280x720 60.0
1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0
832x624 74.6
800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
640x480 72.8 75.0 66.7 60.0
720x400 70.1
DVI-1 connected 1280x1024+1680+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 338mm x 270mm
1280x1024 60.0*+
1152x864 75.0
1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0
832x624 74.6
800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
640x480 72.8 75.0 66.7 60.0
720x400 70.1
Are you seeing the output on both screens when you put the xrandr command in?
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godtuti wrote:its a desktop and yes i have two monitors a acer al1715 and a dell on the right. there both displaying the same thing.
My xrandr shows me this for the 2 monitors that I have connected
╔═[14:46]═[inxs @ wolfdale] ╚═══===═══[~]>> xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2960 x 1050, maximum 8192 x 8192 DIN disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-0 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 433mm x 271mm 1680x1050 60.0*+ 1280x1024 75.0 60.0 1440x900 59.9 1280x800 59.8 1152x864 75.0 1280x720 60.0 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 72.8 75.0 66.7 60.0 720x400 70.1 DVI-1 connected 1280x1024+1680+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 338mm x 270mm 1280x1024 60.0*+ 1152x864 75.0 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 72.8 75.0 66.7 60.0 720x400 70.1
Are you seeing the output on both screens when you put the xrandr command in?
well yes i mean there both mirroring each other. so i see the same thing on both.
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well yes i mean there both mirroring each other. so i see the same thing on both.
Slow down for a second. What exactly is your specific problem then? Because it sounds like your hardware is working via autodetect.
When you say "mirroring each other" do you mean that one monitor is cloning the output of the other...or what?
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godtuti wrote:well yes i mean there both mirroring each other. so i see the same thing on both.
Slow down for a second. What exactly is your specific problem then? Because it sounds like your hardware is working via autodetect.
When you say "mirroring each other" do you mean that one monitor is cloning the output of the other...or what?
yes there cloning the output of each other, and my problem is that there not one big screen and there just cloning each other
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Old vga cables seem to cause problems with monitor autodetect. I found this out the hard way after hours of messing with config files etc.
are you saying its time to replace some cables?
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I find it strange that the xrandr command is not detecting the second monitor at all but he can still see the cloning. Are you sure the monitors were connected when you executed xrandr?
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I find it strange that the xrandr command is not detecting the second monitor at all but he can still see the cloning. Are you sure the monitors were connected when you executed xrandr?
yes ive had them connected for the past day and were cloning when i ran the command
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gazj wrote:Old vga cables seem to cause problems with monitor autodetect. I found this out the hard way after hours of messing with config files etc.
are you saying its time to replace some cables?
Could be. I had two new monitors used the cables from my old monitors (being to lazy to unplug them from the computer). The cable from my really old monitor was stopping randr from detecting my monitor. Hours of frustration later I tried the new cables that came with the new monitors and bingo
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does anyone have a idea how to fix this without getting new cables?
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does anyone have a idea how to fix this without getting new cables?
If it really is the cables, then there's really not much you can do besides buy new ones. Do you have somebody that you know that may have a cable laying around that you could test?
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godtuti wrote:does anyone have a idea how to fix this without getting new cables?
If it really is the cables, then there's really not much you can do besides buy new ones. Do you have somebody that you know that may have a cable laying around that you could test?
i have no friends that know what a vga cable is lol
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