Thanks for including the Xorg.0.log. The way that multiple monitors are handled has changed considerably (as you have noticed) from back when Xinerama was used, to now with XRandR. Xinerama would have you create separate screens for each output, and then it would stitch them into a single desktop after; while this worked, its implementation was generally considered a bad hack, and so that was essentially discarded when Xrandr was introduced to the open source drivers.
Unfortunately, this forced us distros to make a hard choice between sticking with Xinerama (allowing for multi-card, >3 monitor setups), or moving on to Xrandr (which allows for hotpluggable projectors and monitors). For Ubuntu, we decided the latter use case was more prevalent and more important, with the added benefit of staying closer to upstream's work. The downside is that currently using multiple graphics cards is not feasible. Dual-head can be done in Xrandr, if all the outputs are connected to the same card. The good news is that much of the technical work required for enabling multiple cards properly in Xrandr is under way upstream. I am hopeful that we'll be able to incorporate much of this for Intrepid. For a description of the current needs and status, I've written up https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelWishlist and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Drivers, which I'd refer you to for further information. You might be able to downgrade your video drivers (perhaps the 7.10 or 7.04 versions), although you may prefer to simply stick with 7.10 until Intrepid comes out. ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist Status: New => Triaged -- 8.04 - X with NVidia drivers does not detect screens or second graphics card https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223875 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
