RE: Dual-Monitor help
> > 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
Oops, forgot to include:
$ lsmod | grep nouveau
nouveau 581600 2
ttm 48312 1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper 22707 1 nouveau
drm 160013 3 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 12713 1 nouveau
mxm_wmi 12433 1 nouveau
video 17415 1 nouveau
i2c_core 19218 5 nouveau,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801
button 12817 1 nouveau
wmi 13051 3 nouveau,mxm_wmi,dell_wmi
>
> >
> > 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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