Thank you for the help you gave me. Now I'll just wait :) On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Philip Muskovac <yo...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Sry, forgot to comment that. It means that I since you said that you use > the nvidia driver version 177 I assinged this bug report to the nvidia- > graphics-driver-177 package, with this the maintainers of the nvidia > driver package are notified. I also set it to confirmed because I think > that they might be able to further investigate the issue now that you > added more information about your problem. Judging from the information > you gave I can't help you any more so maybe they can. > > -- > Extra monitor bugs > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345011 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-177” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > > Bug description: > If you plug in an extra monitor (for presentation, or anything) that is a > different resolution, it will do weird things. It will do weird things with > all external monitors, but I'll explain that later. > So lets say you've got yourself a monitor with 1440x900 (like me) and you > plug in an old 1280x1024 monitor, the normal Configure display settings > won't recognise it, and the monitor will be black. If you start NVIDIA X > server settings, you'll get to change the settings of the second monitor > (First bug: You should be able to change these settings without Server > settings). > I figured out that the second monitor only works properly if the Y is lower > or equal to 900, or it will give this error: > Failed to set MetaMode (1) 'CRT-0: 1280x960 @1280x960 +0+0, DFP-0: > nvidia-auto-select @1440x900 +0+0' (Mode 1440x960, id: 51) on X screen 0. > Seems like a total logic error, but it happens to be that the same 2 > monitors where used on Windows without any errors, and with proper > resolution and settings! > Second bug: > If (Second monitor Y =< First monitor Y) > { > Error > } > > Another small bug is that the background gets stretched, and gets very ugly > with these resolutions. The background should be scaled and should be > displayed twice; once for every monitor. (3rd bug) > > I really like how Windows (Vista) manages second monitors, I hope that > managing monitors will be about the same as Windows (Vista). > -- Extra monitor bugs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345011 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
