Question about dual monitors

[ben]

On Saturday 22 April 2006 09:06, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Here's a snip from my X.org config file:
>
> Section "Monitor"
>          Identifier      "Generic Monitor"
>          Option          "DPMS"
>          HorizSync       28-49
>          VertRefresh     43-72
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>          Identifier      "External Monitor"
>          Option          "DPMS"
>          HorizSync       28-49
>          VertRefresh     43-72
> EndSection
>
>
> How is X.org or Xinerama supposed to know which one is supposed to be
> the LCD screen on my laptop and which one is the CRT connected to the
> VGA output?
>
> There is nothing that I can see in the X config file that could tell X
> or Xinerama which is which. The identifier is just a human-readable
> string, it could just as well be "WALA WALA".
>
> If X can't possibly distinguish between these, it's not surprising that
> it's not doing what I want. I expect that X is just ignoring "Screen 1"
> entirely because it doesn't know what to do with it.

Daniel, check out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NvidiaTVOut
under the section "A more complicated way" describes what i think your looking 
for and its worked well for me

-- 
ben <ben at cvrse.com>