dual monitors, 2nd hard drive - 7.10 kubuntu

[justinXcore]

hello i am brand new to linux and i have a few questions.

i have 2 hard drive in my computer, i wiped out my primary drive totally and did a clean install from the liveCD. now in the dolphin it shows me both my hard drives, but when i click on the secondary drive i get this error with a red X at the bottom - "hal-storage-fixed-mount-all-options refused uid 1000". can someone please tell me what this means and how i can access my files on that drive?


i also have 2 video cards in my computer. how can i get the dual monitors working? thanks guys!

[Qqmike]

Re: dual monitors, 2nd hard drive - 7.10 kubuntu

hal-storage-fixed-mount-all-options refused uid 1000

That's a string you can search on here as it has been a well-known issue with lots of discussion.

I usually go to
K > System Settings
Advanced
Disks & Filesystems
Administrator Mode
right-click on the partition of interest
Modify
select a mount point (e.g., to mount drive sdb, you might make up /media/sdb for a mount point)
Click so anyone can do anything at any time.
Click so it is Writeable
OK
Back out – click on the partition again – Enable it (a button at the bottom)
File > Quit and exit out

[justinXcore]

Re: dual monitors, 2nd hard drive - 7.10 kubuntu

got it working, thank you!

does anyone know how to get dual monitors working?

[Qqmike]

Re: dual monitors, 2nd hard drive - 7.10 kubuntu

Great on the hard drive part!

Now, where's some Dual Monitor Guys?

[TheFuzz4]

Re: dual monitors, 2nd hard drive - 7.10 kubuntu

What kind of video card do you have? In my laptop I have NVidia and it was a snap just open up a console and run nvidia-settings. For ATI it was a little more complex. For both cards make sure that you have the restricted drivers installed K > System > Hardware Manager
But in my desktop I have a dual head Radeon X1600, so for ATI go to their http://www.ait.com and download the driver package. Unpack the files somewhere and then go into a konsole and cd into the directory where you put the files. Then just sh the installer. DO NOT INSTALL THE DRIVERS FROM THIS PACKAGE the only thing that you want to install is the Catalyst Control Center. After install reboot your box (thats what I had to do) and under your K menu you should have the shortcut for it.
After you configure either with NVidia or with ATI do a CTRL + ALT + Backspace to restart X and you should be good to go. It's a lot easier now then say 8 months ago when I gave Ubunto a run.