Comment 5 for bug 490516
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| drewlong (info-solutionconsulting) wrote | #5 |
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Acer TravelMate 2420 laptop, GMA 900 3D graphics
To get dual display working I selected preferences | display, cleared mirror screens then dragged my desired placement as expected. ... Nothing special at all.
I had hoped to find the time to post an "how to" on a vertical monitors only layout. With SUSE I did have this problem, never with Mint or Ubuntu. I can't find the time to put suse down again - would have to wipe Mint - for a step by step tutorial but it amounted to:-
Installing arandr - Just so useful for any dual display work, Gnome or KDE.
After a lot of messing around I figured out the display drivers weren't setting refresh rates correctly even though xrand said they were and this was eating the available memory. I created the appropriate modes including vertical and horizontal refresh rates and then everything worked.