Extended Desktop

Özkan Gümü? · 12-28-2005, 08:13 AM

hello,
i have asus nvidia geforce 6200 grafic card and i have linux mandrake 9.1 . i have succesfully downloaded the driver , it's working, but i have two monitor and i want to use the second one, extended desktop. ?n windows XP i can do it, how i can do this in Linux Mandrake 9.1?
thanks,

tets · 02-16-2006, 02:49 PM

Hi,

I think there is no solution :-(
I was searching the internet long enough and no clue. Clone mode work almost "out of the box", but extended mode is probably impossible to setup.

I have laptop Acer 5024 with Ati X700 and proprietary Ati drivers 8.22.5 running Ubuntu 5.10.

If anyone knows anything, please let us know.

Thanks

Tets :-)

Özkan Gümü? · 02-17-2006, 03:34 PM

hi ,
at last i have realised extended desktop , it's perfect for my configuration ,
i have readen this link , i changed a little what must be done :
http: // download.nvidia.com / XFree86 / Linux-x86/1.0-8178/README/ appendix-g . html
and then it worked i can even place extended dual wallpaper on my screens like 1600*1200 ..... etc...
good luck ...

tets · 02-17-2006, 03:50 PM

Too bad for me...I have an ATI card :-(
But thanks for a reply, anyway. I'm happy, that at least you setup it successfully.
I'll keep searching&trying.

Tets :-)

tets · 02-18-2006, 02:02 PM

It's working! And it was incredibly easy to set it up:

As I wrote before, "I have laptop Acer 5024 with Ati X700 and proprietary Ati drivers 8.22.5 running Ubuntu 5.10."

There are these few steps:
1. Backup xorg.conf
2. run "aticonfig --initial=dual-head --screen-layout=right" (I have the second monitor on the right side)
It was running fine, but on the sec. monitor was completly new desktop!
3. Then "aticonfig --dtop=horizontal --overlay-on=1" fix it!

It's all in "aticonfig -h" :-(

Tets :-)