RE: Dual-Monitor help
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> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:32:59 -0600
> Subject: Re: Dual-Monitor help
> From: sdj@rasmussenequipment.com
> To: nelsongreen84@hotmail.com
> CC: bob@proulx.com; debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> Nelson,
> Did you install the driver package? Either xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> or xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (open and closed driver respectively) from
> apt or download and installed from Nvidia's site?
>
> Shane
I sure did:
$ dpkg -l | grep nouveau | cut -d " " -f 3
libdrm-nouveau1
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Nelson Green
> <nelsongreen84@hotmail.com<mailto:nelsongreen84@hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > Nelson Green wrote:
> > > I have a Dell Precision T5500 with dual video cards, and I would
> > > like to have one large screen spread across the two monitors.
> >
> > I usually do this with a single graphics card. So my suggestion might
> > not be useful to you. But...
> >
> > > I am not sure where to start. One thing I have tried to do is to see
> > > what xrandr gives me, and I don't completely understand the output
> > > of that. I have included that output, and a copy of Xorg.0.log
> > > below.
> > >
> > > At this point I would welcome any suggestions as to what to try next.
> >
> > I would start with lxrandr. Because even me being a staunch CLI
> > advocate it is sometimes easier to click the mouse. This is simply an
> > graphical interface to xrandr.
> >
> > # apt-get install lxrandr
> >
> > $ lxrandr
>
> Unfortunately, lxrandr only shows the single monitor. Another issue I
> have is nothing from xrandr nor lxrandr shows an output interface. If
> I could get that information I might at least have a place to start. As it
> is, the only indications that the two cards are even known to the system
> are the Xorg log, and the output of dmesg. Other than that nothing
> seems to be aware of the second video card and/or monitor.
>
> BTW, I also realized I forgot to mention that I am using the Xfce
> Desktop. I doubt that makes any difference, but figured I should at
> least mention it for completeness.
>
> I appreciate the reply.
> Patrick
>
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