Comment 5 for bug 864784

I find that saving my settings to Xorg.conf with the second monitor enabled
and rebooting tends to work every time. But you have to have the external
monitor/projector plugged in at boot to have it work. Perhaps if you can
get a projector working, then 'save to xorg.conf' you will be able to plug
in the projector and then boot your laptop and be able to save some
time.... Less than idea but perhaps better luck to you.

I find that Unity crashes much less frequently now when enabling my
external monitor, but it's always a scary operation, I've become accustom
to closing all of my applications before trying just in case, which is
quite annoying.... I for one can't wait for 12.04.... I don't want to go
back to 10.10 but it's looking better and better every day.

~Dereck

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and
falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” -
Michelangelo

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Jorge Gustavo <email address hidden> wrote:

> I can have both monitors working, but only after 2 or 3 attempts. My
> first 10-15 minutes of each lesson is to configure Ubuntu for dual
> monitors. Urh!
>
> It freezes after changing nvidia configuration. But after some attempts,
> it finally applies the configuration. It takes some minutes between
> attempts.
>
> If the configuration is always the same, there is no problem. But since
> I have to connect to a lot of different projectors, it is really
> annoying.
>
> Ubuntu 11.10 (did not happen in previous version, maybe since 2006). It
> happens both with Unity and Gnome 3.
>
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