Salix on Wrong Monitor and Pannel On Wrong Monitor

[happydog500]

Wow, a dog and a cat answered!! I re-looked and it's not in any of my books. Linux cookbook has a huge amount of stuff and it's not in there either. I see people on the Internet for decades asking about commands. I've looked up all kinds of stuff on the net and haven't found anything comprehensive. apple app store stuff is very limited when it comes to what commands each app has.

If you search xrandr, it comes up, but i searched for video being on the wrong monitor, nothing came up. I was getting ready to wipe the drive and install Salix, then I remembered another reason I left was because I couldn't use flux. Redshift didn't work. I posted a thread but didn't get it figured out. I'll keep looking for an answer. If I can get that figured out, chomping at the bit to install/support Salix.

Thank you for the help. Glad to see a cat and a dog get along in this thread.

Chris.

[happydog500]

OK, got a bigger problem now. I installed Salix and everything went good. I did the command and got the desktop on the right monitor. I rebooted with it hooked up and I get no desktop on the computer monitor, and no input at all on the TV.

The only way I can use Salix now is to only use one monitor. Can't even run that command. The computer monitor wasn't black, it had a dark color but had no desktop (audio to TV doesn't work in Salix, first distro to have that problem, but that's another thread).

This is amazing that the only one that works is Windows. No problem at all with any version. With Linux, not one distro works on the right monitor or at all,but that's digressing.

What can I do?


Thank you,
Chris.

[gapan]

But it does work right if you only have one monitor plugged in and then connect the other one and enter that command?

[happydog500]

But it does work right if you only have one monitor plugged in and then connect the other one and enter that command?

"xrandr: cannot find mode 1920x1080"

What a bummer, i got chips, food, all ready to watch a movie and I can't. Wrecked my whole night. Thought about re-installing Mint but I really like Salix. I want to get a distro to use and support.

Wish I could understand Linux's obsession with analog over digital video.

UPDATE: As I'm typing this, i remembered to go in "display' settings. Although it's already set up, just by going to the settings, the screens flicker. Then it works on the wrong monitor. I rand the command and its' now the way it's supposed to be. The only thing now is to make it permanent.

Hope we can get this working right.

Thank you,
Chris.

[happydog500]

Unbelievable. I was not able to watch a movie tonight. I got the monitor working so movie night's back on. The sound doesn't work, so it's back off. I spend part of the night and got my sound working. Good, it's late but still have time to watch the movie.

Can't access my other drives where the movies are. I have quick start turned off in Windows, so that's not it. One of the other drives doesn't have an OS on it, so can't be the problem. So I guess I lost video night after all.

Most important here is to get the video figured out.

Thanks,
Chris.

[gapan]

"xrandr: cannot find mode 1920x1080"

Post the output of the

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xrandr

command.

[mimosa]

Maybe this:
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=7052

[happydog500]

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[~]$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA-0 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 930mm x 523mm
   1920x1080     59.93*+
   1280x800      59.81  
   1280x720      60.00  
   1024x768      75.08    70.07    60.00  
   800x600       72.19    75.00    60.32  
   640x480       75.00    60.00  
   720x400       70.08  
DVI-0 connected primary 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 474mm x 296mm
   1680x1050     59.88*+
   1600x1200     60.00  
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
   1440x900      74.98    59.90  
   1280x960      60.00  
   1152x864      75.00  
   1280x720      60.00  
   1024x768      75.08    70.07    60.00  
   832x624       74.55  
   800x600       72.19    75.00    60.32    56.25  
   640x480       75.00    72.81    66.67    60.00  
   720x400       70.08  

This shows with my desktop on the TV. I will run the command and get it to the other. We did this before and got it fixed temporarily. Instead of doing this each boot up. we have to get it to do this permanently.

Chris.

[gapan]

But you said it doesn't work now. Does it work now?

[happydog500]

But you said it doesn't work now. Does it work now?

A few posts a go, UPDATE: As I'm typing this, i remembered to go in "display' settings. Although it's already set up, just by going to the settings, the screens flicker. Then it works on the wrong monitor. I ran the command and its' now the way it's supposed to be. The only thing now is to make it permanent.
Hope we can get this working right.

I know what it is. I need the fglrx driver. fglrx driver doesn't work with the new XServer 1.18. i've seen where people have worked on this for 5 months and said, "no way no how."

Many, things aren’t working with Salix. I can't access my other drives, Can't see anything, downloaded desktop images are lost, no flux or redshift. I want to use Salix as my distro. I wanted to see what would happen if it installed Mint 17.3. Both monitors worked right out of the box (fglrx), I can access all my drives ("not a Salix problem" was an answer).

In order to have Salix video work right, we have to figure out how to get fglrx drivers. Can't with XServer 1.18, which Salix has. Conventional talk after 5 months is "no way no how."

Still want to use it, but it's not looking very good.

Thanks for the reply,
Chris.