mcfc4eva
August 31st, 2011, 09:21 PM
Hi,
I have been running Windows since day 1 and decided that I wanted to switch to an Open Source OS. I decided on Ubuntu simply because it looks nice and clean and it had good reviews. I am in no way technical, and do not know any of the Linux jargon so please bear this in mind.
Anyway, I have seemed to installed it and it is running okay apart from one thing so far. I have two monitors (different size/resolutions). They were set to "mirror" by default and it displayed okay.
I tried changing the monitor set-up to dual screen, this worked fine with both monitors set at 1024x768, however my recommended resolution for my primary monitor is 1920 x 1080, when I changed the resolution I got the below result.
Screenshot (http://i51.tinypic.com/2ms4nds.png)
The strange thing is, if I unplug the second monitor and try just the bigger one with 1920 x 1080 it works absolutely fine, or if I try dual monitor without changing the resolution it also works fine. It's only when I try combining the dual monitor setup AND the resolution change that it gets messed up. It worked fine when I was using Windows and the exact same hardware so I'm a little confused...
Can anybody shed any light on what's happening and why?
Note: I don't know what graphics card or monitor models I have, if you need this information to help me troubleshoot the problem can you first guide me on how to find out?
Thanks,
Mike
I have been running Windows since day 1 and decided that I wanted to switch to an Open Source OS. I decided on Ubuntu simply because it looks nice and clean and it had good reviews. I am in no way technical, and do not know any of the Linux jargon so please bear this in mind.
Anyway, I have seemed to installed it and it is running okay apart from one thing so far. I have two monitors (different size/resolutions). They were set to "mirror" by default and it displayed okay.
I tried changing the monitor set-up to dual screen, this worked fine with both monitors set at 1024x768, however my recommended resolution for my primary monitor is 1920 x 1080, when I changed the resolution I got the below result.
Screenshot (http://i51.tinypic.com/2ms4nds.png)
The strange thing is, if I unplug the second monitor and try just the bigger one with 1920 x 1080 it works absolutely fine, or if I try dual monitor without changing the resolution it also works fine. It's only when I try combining the dual monitor setup AND the resolution change that it gets messed up. It worked fine when I was using Windows and the exact same hardware so I'm a little confused...
Can anybody shed any light on what's happening and why?
Note: I don't know what graphics card or monitor models I have, if you need this information to help me troubleshoot the problem can you first guide me on how to find out?
Thanks,
Mike