I found this path in the web:
Hope it helps.You can enable these drivers by opening up the [K] menu , selecting "Applications", then "System", and start the "Additional drivers" application to install the nvidia drivers.
I found this path in the web:
Hope it helps.You can enable these drivers by opening up the [K] menu , selecting "Applications", then "System", and start the "Additional drivers" application to install the nvidia drivers.
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ok so going to additional drivers allowed me to install the propriety drivers I needed, as well as renamed VGA and DVI to CRT and DFP.
However now I have almost a worse problem: once I restarted the computer and came back it wouldn't change the resolution to anything above my smaller VGA monitor and is stuck on clone, even if I tell it to be right of the VGA one.
It's a bit weird, the options to change it to 1950x1080 are there but when I select it nothing happens and it changes back to the lower one.
This is really sucking since now I basically am back to having only one monitor unless I disable the drivers which I am considering doing if this goes on for too long. Not only is it back to one monitor but my smaller one.
Ok so I can get the monitor to stop being a clone if I have it on the lowest resolution possible which is useless (640x480) or with playing around can get it at it's proper resolution and turn my other one into the lowest, which is what I'm keeping it at for now until it gets figured out.
Last edited by animedragon67; January 16th, 2011 at 07:45 AM.
The proprietary driver for ATI/AMD cards/chips comes also with its own configuration tool, it's called "AMD Catalyst Control Center" (according to its website, may be also ATI ...). It should be in the "System" menu also. Try to set up your configuration with those tool, if you haven't done that already.
If that doesn't work, you should really try to set up the monitor modes in one of those ways.
It's really not that difficult. You have now the "xorg.conf" at least set up to your current driver and its options, you only have to fix the modes, and if that way also doesn't work, the xrandr way should.
Good luck!
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Ok this is not good.
I configured the AMD catalyst control center and it required a restart. It got to the point after I chose the operating system to boot up and then blank screen.
After a couple attempts with the same result I came into windows.
Then try to boot into "recovery mode", choose "root shell prompt", and then enter:
Then reboot. There is another command in this guide to set up dual monitor config:Code:sudo aticonfig --initial -f
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubu...xorg.conf_file
Code:sudo aticonfig --initial -f --adapter=all
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I have a major display issue on an old HP OmniBook with a Pentium 3 900 Mhz processor I'm tried to install Xubuntu on. I managed the install starting from the minimal iso and installing the xubuntu package with tasksel. The problem is the screen is not correctly set unless I run in Gnome Safe Graphics mode (had to install that too.. could not see anything on my xserver otherwise) I tried running in safe mode and it worked the first time, but after fiddling around and rebooting the screen started being garbled even in safe mode.
If I start a Xubuntu session all i see is the default wallpaper (no menus, no icons whatsoever). If I choose the xfce terminal session I get the same result plus a terminal window which is way bigger than the screen (I don't get to see the upper left corner of it). Tried changing resolution, scale, mode whatever using xrandr but I could only get the text bigger or smaller... and see less of the terminal window. I'm puzzled..
@Edoaigor: It would be better to start a new thread on your matter, not at least to draw more attention.
About your issue: I had a conversation recently with another user regarding a similar issue with an old Omnibook, maybe you can get some usefull tips out of it:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1663355
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So I've been trying to follow the guides and create a new xorg.conf file..I edited Xsetup but it didn't seem to change anything. I was following this guide:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg
I couldn't tell you what I'm doing wrong, but I'll post what I wrote. My guess would be naming things for one.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "DualScreen"
Screen 0 "DFP2"
Screen 1 "CRT2" RightOf "DFP2" #Screen1(CRT2) right of Screen0(DFP2)
Option "Xinerama" "1" #To move windows between screens
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Option "Enable" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
Option "Enable" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "ati" #Choose the driver used for this monitor
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"
Driver "ati"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0" #Collapse Monitor and Device section to Screen section
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24 #Choose the depth (16||24)
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
It's a good start, butCode:Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "DualScreen" Screen 0 "DFP2" Screen 1 "CRT2" RightOf "DFP2" #Screen1(CRT2) right of Screen0(DFP2) Option "Xinerama" "1" #To move windows between screens EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" Option "Enable" "true" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor1" Option "Enable" "true" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "ati" #Choose the driver used for this monitor Screen 0 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device1" Driver "ati" Screen 1 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" #Collapse Monitor and Device section to Screen section Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 #Choose the depth (16||24) SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection
- "ati" would mean the default open source driver, not the proprietary one, those is called "fglrx"
- it may be necessary to add the specs of your monitor, I add my xorg.conf below for reference. To get the correct values of your monitor, use hwinfo:
- you have to add another "Screen" section, like in this example:Code:sudo apt-get install hwinfo sudo hwinfo --monitor
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php....2FDual_screen
- you should specify the desired monitor modes also, in the screen sections, like in the above example (if that doesn't work, you may have to add the according "modelines" to the "Monitor" sections)
You have to put all that in "/etc/X11/xorg.conf", not anywhere else, if that file doesn't exist, create it.
Code:# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings # nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildd@palmer) Fri Apr 9 10:35:18 UTC 2010 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" Option "Xinerama" "0" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "Monitor" # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Sony CPD-4401" HorizSync 30.0 - 107.0 VertRefresh 48.0 - 120.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce4 Ti 4200" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "0" Option "metamodes" "1152x864_85 +0+0; 1152x864 +0+0; 1152x864_100 +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection
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Ugh....so I've been procrastinating a bit but seems I'm having problems with creating the xorg.conf file, I've tried multiple times and it has a problem with the names of the horizontal/vertical syncs. I don't know what it would accept though. Eventually I erased it and booted back up to what I had before so I could do something other than terminal.
Do things have different names according to the versions or computer you have?
Or if there's a better way I can fix this problem.
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