Ubuntu and screen resolution and MIT

[Ryan Pugatch]

Matthew Gillen wrote:

> The correct steps for hooking up to external displays is, in my experience,
> highly dependent on your video chipset.  At work I have one set of dell
> laptops that will plug-n-play with an external monitor (ie boot up, then plug
> in the monitor, restart X, and bam, it works), but my personal laptop, which
> is also dell but has an Nvidia Quadro card, I have to go in to xorg.conf and
> set up TwinView for it to work properly (using the proprietary drivers for the
> latter, obviously).
> 


With NVidia, I use the nvidia-settings app to manage it.

I have to manually add:

     Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfo" "true"

to my xorg.conf to make the driver send what Xfce needs to recognize 
that I have two displays not one huge one.




Ryan Pugatch
Systems Administrator, TripAdvisor