Re: second display

2012-02-01 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 31/01/12 14:48, Florian Pougheon wrote: Hi, to customise dual screen & resolution issue, you can try this utility : arandr It's the easiest way for me to customize a dual screen. A shame it does not work with propietary drivers (at least it does not work with nvidia) greets! aL -- To

Re: second display

2012-02-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-01-31 18:21:22 +, Camaleón wrote: > But you will have more information and specific command line examples by > Googling around. For instance, I found this article very useful ("Adding > undetected resolutions"): > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution This article suggests p

Re: second display

2012-02-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, On 2012-01-31 21:26:22 +1100, Pastor ALexander wrote: > I am lost on the site, > installing to my laptop the 42inch sharp tv screen comes up in 1024 > instead of 1360 I had a similar problem a few weeks ago. You might want to do something like that. Note: this is just an example; you need to

Re: second display

2012-01-31 Thread Florian Pougheon
Hi, to customise dual screen & resolution issue, you can try this utility : arandr It's the easiest way for me to customize a dual screen. Le 31/01/2012 12:24, Jude DaShiell a écrit : Study boot parameters then you get to control that feature once you put the correct boot parameters into you

Re: second display

2012-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:26:22 +1100, Pastor ALexander wrote: (please, no html... thanks) > I am lost on the site, > installing to my laptop the 42inch sharp tv screen comes up in 1024 > instead of 1360 pclinuxos and mint dont have this problem. I like debian > much better but this is irritating ev

Re: second display

2012-01-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 31 ian 12, 21:26:22, Pastor ALexander wrote: > > I am lost on the site, > installing to my laptop the 42inch sharp tv screen comes up in 1024 > instead of 1360 > pclinuxos and mint dont have this problem. > I like debian much better but this is irritating > everything else on debian i foun

Re: second display

2012-01-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
Study boot parameters then you get to control that feature once you put the correct boot parameters into your menu.list file.On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Pastor ALexander wrote: > > I am lost on the site, > installing to my laptop the 42inch sharp tv screen comes up in 1024 instead > of 1360 > pclinux

second display

2012-01-31 Thread Pastor ALexander
I am lost on the site, installing to my laptop the 42inch sharp tv screen comes up in 1024 instead of 1360 pclinuxos and mint dont have this problem. I like debian much better but this is irritating everything else on debian i found better than on any other distro. all other problems have been s

Re: Second display as dedicated desktop workspace?

2010-11-12 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:37:13PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:11:11 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > (...) > > > What I would really like to do is have the second display tied to the > > login session of the first display but as a separate worksp

Re: Second display as dedicated desktop workspace?

2010-11-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2010 12 Nov 06:38 -0600, Camaleón wrote: > I dunno how that adapter works (and it's quite expensive and low > performance! wouldn't have been better to replace your current VGA card > with a new one featuring 2 VGA outputs? :-?) but if I understood you > correctly, you are looking for a Xin

Re: Second display as dedicated desktop workspace?

2010-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:11:11 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: (...) > What I would really like to do is have the second display tied to the > login session of the first display but as a separate workspace. In > other words, when logged in I could set it to workspace 5 while I use > 1-

Second display as dedicated desktop workspace?

2010-11-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
I had a bright idea a few days ago to add a second display to my Sid box. Turns out that the onboard Intel VGA adapter is disabled when an adapter is installed in the PCIE slot. As the remaining PCI slots were full, I couldn't install a spare card, so I ordered a Startech USB2VGA wh

Re: Using a second display adapter

2008-04-20 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 09:06:02AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 07:06:55PM +, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .org> was heard to say: . . > > Perfermance is definately way down the list, as I'm not really planning > > in implementing support for fancy acceleration feat

Re: Using a second display adapter

2008-04-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 07:06:55PM +, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > n Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 07:53:58AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > I only use Nvidia. Best cards best support although proprietary driver. > > Unfortunately I think that probably rules out nVidia for m

Re: Using a second display adapter

2008-04-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
n Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 07:53:58AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Digby Tarvin wrote: . . > >Can anyone explain what happens hardware wise when a second adapter is > >present? For example, adding a PCI adapter to a system that already > >has an AGP card. > > Just put the second one in xorg. conf: .

Re: Using a second display adapter

2008-04-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Digby Tarvin wrote: I am thinkng of adding a second display adapter to experiment with. I'm not really interested in dual head X (I'd use single dual head adapter for that). I am more interested in having some display hardware that I can experiment with without effecting my console

Re: Using a second display adapter

2008-04-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Digby Tarvin wrote: I am thinkng of adding a second display adapter to experiment with. I'm not really interested in dual head X (I'd use single dual head adapter for that). I am more interested in having some display hardware that I can experiment with without effecting my console

Using a second display adapter

2008-04-18 Thread Digby Tarvin
I am thinkng of adding a second display adapter to experiment with. I'm not really interested in dual head X (I'd use single dual head adapter for that). I am more interested in having some display hardware that I can experiment with without effecting my console/X display. Can anyo