multi monitors does not work

[Alan Bell]

plugging an external monitor into my laptop and booting up I get a mirrored display with the resolution of the larger external monitor rather than a dual screen setup. The display settings applet only sees a single display of the large size so I can't position them side by side.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu Package testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1195868

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

See also related bug 1195870 about removing a monitor after boot not being handled. I'm assuming that will be fixed at the same time general multi-monitor support is added.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1102760, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.