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[ubuntu] Issues with xorg.conf getting reverted

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 recently and have noticed that my resolution is getting automatically changed when launching some apps like thunderbird. It does not happen all of the time and simply copying the old xorg.cong backup file to xorg.conf and restarting X temporarily resolves the issue. However, I would to fix this so that a restart of X is no longer needed. I am running dual acer monitors with a nvidia geforce 8600 GT card. One of the monitors is attached to a KVM via VGA and the other is attached directly to the system. I did not have this issue in 11.10 with the exact same setup. Any (Hardware)

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I guess I'm not a total beginner to Ubuntu, but when it comes to XORG I feel like I am.

I have two monitors, monitor 1 has a resolution of 1440x900, monitor 2 has a resolution of 1600x900.

Well ever since I have used dual monitors with the NVIDIA X Server Settings program my xorg process has been crashing after a while, and its generally a pretty long while of like 6 hours afterwards. Before NVIDIA changed my xorg.conf file I only had xorg crash like twice in 2 months, I can't figure out what is going on.

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I'm trying to set up dual Dell Ultrasharp u2311h (23 inch, 1920x1080) monitors with my ubuntu 12.04 partition. I'm running a Radeon 7970HD graphics card with the fglrx drivers (from the ati website), and for some reason my xorg.conf file keeps messing up. Every time I back up xorg.conf, delete it and reboot it seems to works fine.

Hi,

I've been trying to get my screen resolution to display correctly for the past few days. I've read many solutions but none have worked for me yet, so I thought I'd reach out for some help.

I have 2 acer monitors, both having a resolution of 1440x900 (specs http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824009235)

I have an nvidia GeForce 8400 GS graphics card.

I have a xorg.conf that works in Ubuntu 9.10. The xorg.conf adds a new modeline and setup dual monitors. Recently, I tried Xubuntu 11.10, and sadly found that the same xorg.conf doesn't work anymore. To be more precisely, I did see the wallpaper showed in the correct resolution in the beginning, but then my first monitor, Dell 2007FP, turned black. I checked with xrandr -q, and found that the new

I have a video-adapter(Dell MMH11) that is connected to the display-port of my graphics card. The adapter identifies itself to the graphics card as a 3840x1200 display. The adapter has two monitors connected to it (monitor resolution=1920x1200). A third monitor is connected directly on the graphics card DVI port(same resolution).

I have been trying this to no avail. I am a linux newb, so a step by step explanation would be greatly appreciated. I have two video cards, nvidia geforce 8600 gt . I want a monitor to run on each card, so twinview cannot be used because my understanding that is only for single video cards.

I went to the system monitors tab and my second display is detected but disabled.

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Hi. I would like to share my xorg.conf, since it took forever to get right.There isn't a lot of information out there for folks using > 2 monitors, or several graphics cards, or esoteric setups including rotation etc. I hope this will be useful; I wouldn't mind contributing to the wiki if anybody thinks it might be useful.So first up: hardware.