Re: dual monitors

2011-02-21 Thread David Kramer
On 02/21/2011 09:55 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > David Kramer wrote: >> You don't describe how you *want* it to work... > > That was partially intentional. Having two displays isn't an absolute > requirement, so I'm looking for any way in which I can make use of the > display built-in to the laptop that

Re: dual monitors

2011-02-21 Thread Tom Metro
David Kramer wrote: > You don't describe how you *want* it to work... That was partially intentional. Having two displays isn't an absolute requirement, so I'm looking for any way in which I can make use of the display built-in to the laptop that minimizes negative impact on the usability of the p

Re: dual monitors

2011-02-21 Thread Tom Metro
Matthew Gillen wrote: > On 2/21/2011 6:15 PM, Tom Metro wrote: >> Matthew Gillen wrote: >>> Are the monitors of the same resolution? >> No. > > I think this might be part of the issue. So I've heard, but the NVIDIA driver seems to handle mixed resolutions fine. I've used it before with different

Re: dual monitors

2011-02-21 Thread David Kramer
On 02/21/2011 07:16 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote: > On 2/21/2011 6:15 PM, Tom Metro wrote: >> Matthew Gillen wrote: >>> Are the monitors of the same resolution? >> >> No. > > I think this might be part of the issue. I had a co-worker who had this > same issue you describe (with ubuntu), I have a msg

Re: dual monitors

2011-02-21 Thread David Kramer
On 02/21/2011 01:14 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > This weekend I attached a 2nd monitor to my laptop and designated it the > "primary display" in the "NVIDIA X Server Settings" applet. I have it > running in "TwinView" mode where the two monitors share a contiguous > desktop. > > I've ran across plenty o

Re: dual monitors

2011-02-21 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 2/21/2011 6:15 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > Matthew Gillen wrote: >> Are the monitors of the same resolution? > > No. I think this might be part of the issue. I had a co-worker who had this same issue you describe (with ubuntu), I have a msg out to see if/how he fixed it. >> For reference, I have

Re: dual monitors

2011-02-21 Thread Tom Metro
Matthew Gillen wrote: > Sounds like it thinks you have one large display instead of two > independent ones. That seems to be what TwinView is intended to emulate. > Are you using nvidia's tool to set up twinview? Yes. > In their tool, "X Server Display Configuration", does it show two > monit

Re: Diagnosing connection issue

2011-02-21 Thread edwardp
That setting already was set to true, but it made no difference. -Original Message- From: Matthew Gillen To: discuss@blu.org Sent: Mon, Feb 21, 2011 1:00 pm Subject: Re: Diagnosing connection issue On 02/21/2011 12:47 PM, edwa...@linuxmail.org wrote: > The issue has been resolved by not

Re: dual monitors

2011-02-21 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 02/21/2011 01:14 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > This weekend I attached a 2nd monitor to my laptop and designated it the > "primary display" in the "NVIDIA X Server Settings" applet. I have it > running in "TwinView" mode where the two monitors share a contiguous > desktop. > > I've ran across plenty o

dual monitors

2011-02-21 Thread Tom Metro
This weekend I attached a 2nd monitor to my laptop and designated it the "primary display" in the "NVIDIA X Server Settings" applet. I have it running in "TwinView" mode where the two monitors share a contiguous desktop. I've ran across plenty of mentions of issues with multiple monitors in X, and

Re: Diagnosing connection issue

2011-02-21 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 02/21/2011 12:47 PM, edwa...@linuxmail.org wrote: > The issue has been resolved by not using Mozilla-derived software on > both operating systems. A little late now, but someone earlier pointed out that IPv6 DNS can cause issues because of incomplete support for it. With mozilla-based product

Re: Diagnosing connection issue

2011-02-21 Thread edwardp
The issue has been resolved by not using Mozilla-derived software on both operating systems. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss