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12-28-2005, 08:13 AM
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Extended Desktop
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,
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02-16-2006, 02:49 PM
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Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Prague, Czech Rep.
Distribution: Gentoo, Mint
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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 :-)
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02-17-2006, 03:34 PM
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Registered: Dec 2005
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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 ...
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02-17-2006, 03:50 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Prague, Czech Rep.
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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 :-)
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02-18-2006, 02:02 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Prague, Czech Rep.
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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 :-)
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