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Two Monitors: Mint Sees 'Em, Debian Doesn't

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LaneLester
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Two Monitors: Mint Sees 'Em, Debian Doesn't

#1 Post by LaneLester »

I'm not a troll, just a user seeking a solution to a Debian problem.

I have two monitors connected to my desktop PC, and my hard drive has several partitions with different distros on them:
  • Debian Netinstall
    Debian KDE\
    Lubuntu LXDE
    Mint KDE
    Peppermint LXDE
The two Mints and Lubuntu detect and enable my two monitors as a single desktop extending across the total width. I can have different windows on the two monitors.

The two Debians are recent downloads, and I did the 83 updates on the KDE install. Both Debians detect only one monitor, using arandr in Netinstall and the monitor settings in KDE.

I would like to use the Debians; is there a possible solution to my problem?

Lane

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Re: Two Monitors: Mint Sees 'Em, Debian Doesn't

#2 Post by happydog500 »

Sorry this is not an answer to your problem, but I can't get dual monitors to work in Mint or any other distro (about 15). Some will do one, Debian has blank on both. Wish I was in your situation of having Mint work with two monitors.

Sad to say, but I got the least help in other Debian forums then others. I thought for sure it would be one of the best.

Hope you will get this fixed.

Chris.

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Re: Two Monitors: Mint Sees 'Em, Debian Doesn't

#3 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

It is likely that the graphics card is not properly supported, either because of missing non-free firmware (in the case of AMD cards) or simply because the hardware is too new for jessie's old kernel version.

Please post the specifics of your graphics hardware and kernel driver.

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lspci -knn | grep -iA2 'vga\|3d'
deadbang

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