Solved - Re: notebook-monitor mirroring not working on Fedora 22

Marshall Neill ramien43 at windstream.net
Fri Aug 14 06:02:48 CEST 2015


Glad it is all working now or I assume it by your last e-mail.

Regards,
Marshall






On 08/13/2015 10:42 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Just played around more in <Super>P > Advanced until I got it to 
> enable Monitor and Laptop together, then it allowed mirroring. Then I 
> had to select mirroring.
>
> Now I am seeing this on both the monitor and the laptop.
>
> Whew.
>
> On 08/13/2015 05:16 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> More information:
>>
>> On 08/13/2015 12:21 PM, killermoehre wrote:
>>> Am 13.08.2015 um 14:24 schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
>>>> I am not seeing what version of Xfce is packaged with F22 (I just 
>>>> built
>>>> this system; old system runs F21).
>>>>
>>>> Lots of things I have to figure out to get Xfce working as I want 
>>>> it.  I
>>>> forgot many of the customizations I did 6 months ago.  But formost,
>>>>
>>>> When I plug in my external monitor, I can only select laptop, monitor,
>>>> or 'expand to right'.  Mirroring is greyed out.
>>>>
>>>> For some reason, my Belkin KVM is only probing as 1024x768. I have set
>>>> the laptop resolution at the same, but still mirroring is greyed out.
>>>>
>>>> I really need to get mirroring working before I have to connect this
>>>> system to a projector for a meeting...
>>> Hi Robert,
>>>
>>> not be able to mirror and wrong resolution sounds like a bad video 
>>> driver. Xfce does nothing itself here, but only parses what RandR 
>>> provides. Test with »xrandr« why your video card doesn't support 
>>> mirroring and look into /var/log/Xorg.0.log which driver is loaded. 
>>> Install the appropriate if not already there.
>>
>> I had to reboot to get some gvfs-mtp drivers working to access my 
>> Android phone, and...
>>
>> The login screen was MIRRORed!
>>
>> But after logging in, it switched to just the external monitor with 
>> mirroring greyed out.
>>
>> ???  Why ???
>>
>>
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