mbelos
May 3rd, 2011, 06:26 AM
Hi, I have a HP laptop which is running 11.04 x64 (upgraded from 10.10). It has an nVidia card and I'm currently using TwinView with a secondary monitor.
With my current configuration, if I boot up with the 2nd monitor unplugged, the desktop is stretched and out of resolution. Unity and the main panel look fine, but any other apps that I load are also stretched and out of resolution.
This has to do with my xorg.conf file, because if I delete it and reboot, everything works on my primary monitor as expected. The problem is that without the xorg.conf file, I have to set up TwinView each time I boot up which is annoying.
I don't know why, but 10.10 handled this just fine... I had the same xorg.conf file, but 10.10 was detecting that only 1 monitor was available and scaling the desktop correctly.
If it helps, here is my new xorg.conf file (generated by nVidia Settings): http://pastebin.com/iVHXXCxH.
I also posted this question on askubuntu, but I haven't received a response as yet (http://askubuntu.com/questions/39483/ubuntu-11-04-twinview-setup-keeps-the-desktop-stretched-when-only-one-monitor-i).
How can I fix/work around this without having to configure TwinView each time I boot up?
With my current configuration, if I boot up with the 2nd monitor unplugged, the desktop is stretched and out of resolution. Unity and the main panel look fine, but any other apps that I load are also stretched and out of resolution.
This has to do with my xorg.conf file, because if I delete it and reboot, everything works on my primary monitor as expected. The problem is that without the xorg.conf file, I have to set up TwinView each time I boot up which is annoying.
I don't know why, but 10.10 handled this just fine... I had the same xorg.conf file, but 10.10 was detecting that only 1 monitor was available and scaling the desktop correctly.
If it helps, here is my new xorg.conf file (generated by nVidia Settings): http://pastebin.com/iVHXXCxH.
I also posted this question on askubuntu, but I haven't received a response as yet (http://askubuntu.com/questions/39483/ubuntu-11-04-twinview-setup-keeps-the-desktop-stretched-when-only-one-monitor-i).
How can I fix/work around this without having to configure TwinView each time I boot up?