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How do I set my monitor to widescreen mode in Mint when it doesn't recognize widescreen capability?
My computer is a former laptop from which I removed the screen. The graphics card is an ATI Radeon of some kind. I have it plugged into a small TV via VGA cable, but Mint still thinks I have the ...
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Multiple monitors as cloned desktop windows
I am running Fedora 16 using an Nvidia card with 2 monitors. I have the monitors setup as 2 separate displays (in that I can move a window from monitor to monitor). One monitor is mounted in a ...
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Booting Laptop with external monitor stalls
Whenever I try to boot linux with an external monitor attached to my laptop, it hangs after checking the battery state with the following message repeated several times:
...crtc_helper_set_config...
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How can I detect when a monitor is plugged in or unplugged?
Is there any event that is triggered when I plug in or out an external monitor into the DisplayPort of my laptop? ACPID and UDEV don't react at all.
I'm using onboard graphics on an intel chip. Here ...
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How can I swap my two screens, left to right?
I pressed something and accidentally swapped my two screens. My left one is actually considered as the right one, and vice versa. How can I swap them back?
Edit - Specifically, I'm using Gnome, ...
