[Gllug] Dual monitor setup

[Simon Perry]

Dylan wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I would like to achieve the following: I have two screens, an LCD TV and a 
> standard monitor. Both have vga and hdmi/dvi connections. Ideally, I'd like 
> to have two users, one of which always uses the TV (for watching streamed TV 
> or media players), and the other which normally uses the monitor for email, 
> browsing, etc, but can optionally use the TV for graphics work etc. I 
> particularly want to achieve this with only one machine - there's physical 
> space and electricity consumption to consider.
> 
It sounds like you want a dual head setup but for that you will need a 
second graphics card.

This used to be trivial to setup as X -configure would reliably guess 
the correct configuration. However recent Kernels and X versions have 
managed to break the functionality. For Ubuntu at least anything newer 
than Hardy will hit the following bug.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18160

I believe it is fixed in Xorg 1.7 but that's a few months off.

Simon
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