kubuntu 9.10 dual monitor setup

[Rajinder Yadav]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Giles Orr <gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 2010/1/5 Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>:
>> So it looks like the vid card on my mobo was not liked by kubuntu 9.10
>> (NVIDIA Geforce7050PV/nForce 630a)
>>
>> I just got my new video card also a nvidia 9500 GT to setup dual
>> monitors. i was able to get kubuntu 9.10 installed and currently
>> updating the base
>>
>> the video card has 2 dvi output to support dual monitors, one one i am
>> using a vga adaptor.
>>
>> i can't seem to get dual monitor to work? from system settings ->
>> monitor, i see 2 vid output one is DVI0, the other is VGA2 which seems
>> correct because these are the two monitors i have plugged in
>>
>> what's odd is i can set up different screen resolution for each
>> monitor, but I only see one desktop, both monitors show the same
>> desktop.
>>
>> how do i get each monitor to show it's own desktop?
>
> A friend of mine recently encountered a very similar problem with a
> Debian install: it could see both the outputs, but wouldn't use them
> except in mirrored mode.  The solution for him was a "Virtual" line in
> xorg.conf:
>
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2#the_Virtual_screen

Hi Giles, thanks for this tip, I will look into this tonight and get
back to you. I hope this works for the case when the resolution on
each monitors is different.

> I hope this helps - in fact, please let me know (off list if you
> prefer) if it does, as I deal with this fairly frequently myself on
> various machines.
>
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> Giles
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Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav

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