Which graphics chip do you have? If you have either nVidia or ATI, both have graphics utilities (and command line utilities) that are bundled with the drivers to setup dual/triple/quad monitor setup.
Hetz 2010/5/21 Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> > On 21 May 2010 18:10, Omer Zak <w...@zak.co.il> wrote: > > If you haven't done so, you need also to define a virtual screen size > > which is big enough to include both physical displays. > > You may want to have a look in man 1 xrandr. > > > > --- Omer > > > > Thank you Omer, there was no indication in the KDE dialogue that was > even necessary. > > Going through the manpage, it looks like I need the --fb flag. > However, it seems to automatically calculate the size if none is > given: > > --fb widthxheight > Reconfigures the screen to the specified size. All > configured > monitors must fit within this size. When this option is not > pro‐ > vided, xrandr computes the smallest screen size that will > hold > the set of configured outputs; this option provides a way > to > override that behaviour. > > In any case, the problem might be that my video driver doesn't support > such a large screen: > ✈dcl:~$ xrandr --fb 3360x1050 > xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 1680x1680 (desired size 3360x1050) > ✈dcl:~$ xrandr --fb 1680x2100 > xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 1680x1680 (desired size 1680x2100) > > How can I check if this is a driver issue, short of installing a > different driver? > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://gibberish.co.il > http://what-is-what.com > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org Skype: heunique MSN: hetz-b...@benhamo.org
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