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mr.peeters

dual display monitor issues cinnamon

Post by mr.peeters »

Hi I've ubuntu 11.10 installed and really wanted to use cinnamon, but now have major issues with my dual display set-up.
I'm use to hook up my laptop via VGA to a monitor - used to work perfectly.
Cinnamon recognises the extra monitor, but as soon as I connect my computer the screen either blocks, or there's no menus or panels anymore, can't move windows anymore and need to do a hard restart urgh.
Anyone know about any solution for this?
Thx.
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terdon

Re: dual display monitor issues cinnamon ubuntu

Post by terdon »

Nope, but I have the same problem. I have found that everything is fine if I use the VGA monitor ONLY but I get a black screen (can't even drop to ttys with Ctrl+Alt+F keys, nor does Ctrl+Alt+Backspace have any effect) and no choice but a hard restart if I try for extended desktop. I am using the nvidia proprietary driver and the screen is a Philips 190WS.

Oddly enough, things seem to work OK with another monitor (Dell) at work. Something strange about the Philips monitor?
mr.peeters

dual display monitor issues cinnamon

Post by mr.peeters »

Thinking of moving from Ubuntu to Mint I installed Mint over Ubuntu 11.10 and absolutely convinced.
Apart from one major issue - research on this and other forums to no avail.
Cinnamon seems to have a big problem with dual monitor display.
I have my laptop and at home hook it up to a second monitor with VGA.
But Cinnamon apparently is unable to handle this.
If I could solve this problem I'd go Mint for sure.
But until then, Ubuntu it is.
Do let me know if anyone has any suggestions...
Thanks!
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Re: dual display monitor issues cinnamon ubuntu

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Topics merged by moderator, and moved here.

How about providing us with some info :) Please open the terminal and post the output of the following command:

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inxi -SGxc 0
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mr.peeters

Re: dual display monitor issues cinnamon

Post by mr.peeters »

Hi Vincent, thx for looking into this.
However your code doesn't work in terminal: 'inxi; command not found' he says.
I can tell you I'm running Cinnamon 1.4 in Ubunutu 11.10 on a Lenovo X201 laptop (Intel Core i5 540M, I think he has an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics).
I'm used to hook it up with VGA to a LG (Goldstar Company) 24'' monitor (res. 1920 x 1080 - res for my laptop is 1280 x 800).
Don't know whether this info is useful?
Thx!
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Re: dual display monitor issues cinnamon

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Oh, I thought you moved to Linux Mint. So moving the topic here, as it isn't about Linux Mint. Ubuntu doesn't install inxi.
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s_shuffler

Re: dual display monitor issues cinnamon

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I've managed to get both Screens working . 8)
Check what I posted in http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.ph ... 48#p649848. It involves "turning off one of the screens in Settings -Displays and turning back on after some changes...).
I hope it helps you also...
Mozenrath

Re: dual display monitor issues cinnamon

Post by Mozenrath »

My girlfriend recently had this problem after updating. She has an Nvidia card, and I fixed the issue by simply creating a new xorg.conf file and remaking the twinview settings.
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