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Debian can't detect Second Monitor

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Debian can't detect Second Monitor

#1 Post by cleito.junior »

He everyone!

I've installed Debian 8.9 in a Desktop With Xfce4 and it can't detect My second Monitor.

There a output of a xrandr:

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Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 2960 x 1116, maximum 32767 x 32767
VGA1 connected 1360x768+1600+348 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 194mm
   1360x768      60.02*+
   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  
lspci's Output:

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ccj@ccj-dsk01:~$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] (rev a1)
That NVIDIA is my second monitor, I'am using Xubuntu in the same hardware (dual boot), and it recognizes my Displays correctly (Inclusive in Xrandr, thet show a New DVI Output as Connected), this Debian will be a new installation but it doens't work. I'm using Kernel 4.9, installed via Jessie Backports Repository.


How can I do to Troubleshoot and Resolve this issue?


Thank You Very Much,


* English is not my native language.

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Re: Debian can't detect Second Monitor

#2 Post by Ardouos »

cleito.junior wrote:He everyone!

I've installed Debian 8.9 in a Desktop With Xfce4 and it can't detect My second Monitor.
Xfce 4.10 does not support more than one monitor. Xfce 4.12 does.
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Re: Debian can't detect Second Monitor

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Ardouos wrote:
cleito.junior wrote:He everyone!

I've installed Debian 8.9 in a Desktop With Xfce4 and it can't detect My second Monitor.
Xfce 4.10 does not support more than one monitor. Xfce 4.12 does.

Great, in My another desktop Xubuntu, i'm running Xfce 4.12 version... I'll check debian installation and comment the result.

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#4 Post by cleito.junior »

Great Ardouos! Thank You very Much. :D

I've updated xfce and now i can see desktop in my 2 monitors.

But:

- When go to "All Setting" > "Display" I received a error message "Unable to Start XFCE display Settings". :shock:
- When I run a arandr, I only can see the active display, to see the other one i have to run arand in another display. This way I can not adjust both screens correctly. I Would Like to Work with 2 displays in extended mode.

What Can I Do?

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cleito.junior wrote:Great Ardouos! Thank You very Much. :D

I've updated xfce and now i can see desktop in my 2 monitors.
How did you update to 4.12? The most ideal way is to upgrade to Debian 9.

https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170617
Debian 9 "Stretch" released
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This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as:
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the Xfce 4.12 desktop environment
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#6 Post by cleito.junior »

How did you update to 4.12? The most ideal way is to upgrade to Debian 9.

Yes I Did It.

But in this moment I just want to Open the Display Settings to view the 2 monitors and adjust the screens, It was working individually.

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What is the full error message?

Can you please answer my question
Yes I Did It.
What did you do? You need to give me as much information as possible or I cannot help you.

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=47078
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Re: Debian can't detect Second Monitor

#8 Post by mrkapqa »

Hello , i am in a similar position,

after i found out that my XFCE4 setup would detect only one monitor and mirror the desktop on both monitors (but not allowing for extended desktop mode; as said, it recognizes only one monitor, but shows the same display on both monitors)


xrandr --auto
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default

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Re: Debian can't detect Second Monitor

#9 Post by mrkapqa »

rich@devuan:~$ xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024
default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1280x1024 0.00*
1024x768 0.00
800x600 0.00
640x480 0.00


i have 2 monitors connected one with dvi, the other with hdmi to dvi . At the installation both monitors were connected.
it is strange because i had xfce4 installed before,, and it would have normally extended the desktop. however, probably i made the original installation of that debian/devuan probably only with one monitor connected during the installation.

it seems that when two monitors are connected during installation in this configuration (dvi + hdmi to dvi ; radeon 5 230) this creates problems.
maybe someone can show me how to reset the configuration?
thank you!

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