Friday, June 28, 2013

Progress on the fglrx dual monitor issue

So, I've been poking around and I'm noticing that xrandr is printing out some very funny things in 13.04.

On 12.10, this is what xrandr tells me:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2390 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS1 connected 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 309mm x 174mm
VGA1 connected 1024x768+1366+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 267mm x 200mm

On 13.04, notice the difference in resolution:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2390 x 777, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS1 connected 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 309mm x 174mm
VGA1 connected 1024x768+1366+9 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 267mm x 200mm
So, this is why the screen seems pushed to the side and is causing the whole misalignment of my desktop.  There must be a way to set xrandr to how it was in 12.10.  I have to keep looking.

I've tried to reconfigure xrandr:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1366x768 --pos 0x0 --output VGA1 --mode 1024x768 --pos 0x0 --right-of LVDS1

This gives me the correct xrandr configuration on 12.10:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2390 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS1 connected 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 309mm x 174mm
VGA1 connected 1024x768+1366+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 267mm x 200mm


But this did not fix my error.  The screen would go off just the same.  This feels like a regression on xrandr and/or fglrx.

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