Short version: I put this on my tiny laptop first to test it out, and found (to my delight) that it actually fixed two very persistently annoying bugs in 12.10 (specifically a nasty issue with Inkscape that caused it to crash when using a mouse with the touchpad disabled, and an issue where the kernel would not recognize Logitech mice using a unified wireless receiver). So I decided to upgrade on my big laptop. It's a risk but mitigated, since my tiny laptop is perfectly functional with Raring beta 2 and I have all my work backed up all over the place.
Big laptop has a problem with the display that I'm not sure how to fix, I wondered if maybe y'all could give me some pointers.
Big laptop uses nvidia drivers which are currently a) disabled and b) not installable on Raring. This isn't surprising, usually the proprietary drivers don't start working until a release is actually released and all the libraries are properly in sync, etc. So it is currently defaulting to the nouveau drivers, as far as I can tell. But here are the issues:
- When my laptop with the 17" 1920x1080 screen is also plugged in to an older external LCD monitor (1280x1024), the display assumes the external monitor is the ONLY MONITOR PRESENT. The new monitor configuration tool only recognizes that one and the laptop's display won't even activate.
- When the external monitor is unplugged, the laptop screen thinks it is that monitor. The highest resolution it will display at is 1280x1024, which looks weird on the screen.
Is there some way to force Kubuntu to rediscover the existing display and run through monitor configuration again? Has anyone tried to use the multiple monitor tool they added to Kubuntu this time around successfully, and are there any tricks to it?
Thanks in advance.
Big laptop has a problem with the display that I'm not sure how to fix, I wondered if maybe y'all could give me some pointers.
Big laptop uses nvidia drivers which are currently a) disabled and b) not installable on Raring. This isn't surprising, usually the proprietary drivers don't start working until a release is actually released and all the libraries are properly in sync, etc. So it is currently defaulting to the nouveau drivers, as far as I can tell. But here are the issues:
- When my laptop with the 17" 1920x1080 screen is also plugged in to an older external LCD monitor (1280x1024), the display assumes the external monitor is the ONLY MONITOR PRESENT. The new monitor configuration tool only recognizes that one and the laptop's display won't even activate.
- When the external monitor is unplugged, the laptop screen thinks it is that monitor. The highest resolution it will display at is 1280x1024, which looks weird on the screen.
Is there some way to force Kubuntu to rediscover the existing display and run through monitor configuration again? Has anyone tried to use the multiple monitor tool they added to Kubuntu this time around successfully, and are there any tricks to it?
Thanks in advance.
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