Dual monitors; Installing Hardy; more wireless woes; dealing with 800x600

[Bob Jonkman]

Just a couple of notes on another install:  

On a Toshiba P200D (AMD64X2, 2 GHz, 2 GBytes RAM, 200 GByte HD) there 
is an ATI card and a 1440x900 screen.  I don't have the 800x600 problem 
on it, but I cannot get it to properly recognize a second 1280x1024 
BENQ FP731 LCD monitor.

It will only clone the desktop on both monitors.  In "System > 
Preferences > Screen Resolution" I cannot get a different part of the 
desktop on each monitor.  I uncheck the "Clone Displays" checkbox, no 
difference.  I can move the screen representations so they appear side-
by-side, but still the second monitor displays the same as the laptop's 
screen.  

As well, the second monitor has a "jittery" display, constantly 
wiggling and shaking like the monitor cannot synch properly.  Different 
refresh rates make no difference. ("extended desktop" works OK with 
Vista, no jitter, so it's not a hardware limitation)

Hardy is better about multiple displays than Gutsy was: Gutsy wouldn't 
even give each display its own resolution. With Gutsy both were either 
at 1280x1024 or 1024x768.  At least now each monitor has its own 
correct resolution.


This laptop has Atheron WiFi and Bluetooth -- where does this get set 
up?  I found "System > Preferences > Bluetooth", but there's nothing 
that lets me add a device like a mouse.  The Help file gives no 
hints...


The Atheron Wireless isn't discovered either.  Like the IBM laptop, 
"System > Administration > Hardware Testing" does see it, but I can't 
set it up from "System > Administration > Network".  The wired Ethernet 
port is OK.



During the original Hardy install on this laptop (performed at Hero 
Certified Burgers, post-Linuxcaffe) I couldn't use my Bluetooth mouse. 
JohnD and I found that tabbing to give focus to the appropriate button 
worked fine, but  pressing "Enter" to activate didn't work.  Instead, I 
had to press the spacebar to activate a button.  This seemed completely 
unintuitive.  I'd like to report this for a feature enhancement; where 
do I go?



One more thing:  when I'm trying to work on the laptop that only 
displays 800x600 I find that some windows are larger than will fit on 
the screen.  The "OK" and "Cancel" buttons are somewhere below the 
bottom of the screen.  This occurs on "System > Administration > Users 
and Groups > Add User",  and the Evolution Setup Assistant.  I'd like 
to report this too, and recommend that the developeres and  QA testers 
use 800x600 themselves to ensure this doesn't happen.

--Bob.


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