GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 730210
I can't use multiple monitors at Asus EEEPC 1005HA
Last modified: 2014-11-10 00:19:09 UTC
I have an Asus EEEPC 1005HA and I can't use multiple monitors. When I activate the external monitor Gnome freeze and crash. I discovered, despite being slower, if the external monitor has the same resolution of the netbook's one, it works. But the higher is the another resolution, slower it turns and, in some moment, it simple does not apply the view changes and crashes gnome. I don't think it's my video driver or X. Gnome 3.2 worked times ago, and today I can use KDE and XFCE accordingly, and it's really faster.
Well your netbook as a gpu that has a texture size limit of 2048x2048 px so any opengl based compositor (like gnome-shell / mutter) would fail to work in anything larger then that.
I don't know how to answer this, but somehow I can use both screens with KDE, XFCE and MS Windows. Today I back to KDE or XFCE always I want to use both screens. With Gnome I need to turn off the netbook's monitor, but it's difficult to do because Gnome always crashes.
(In reply to comment #2) > I don't know how to answer this, but somehow I can use both screens with KDE, > XFCE and MS Windows. Today I back to KDE or XFCE always I want to use both > screens. You missed the "opengl based compositor" part. In KDE this is optional as "desktop effects", XFCE does not use any compositor. > With Gnome I need to turn off the netbook's monitor, but it's difficult to do > because Gnome always crashes. Yeah we should detect that and handle it better.
(In reply to comment #3) > You missed the "opengl based compositor" part. In KDE this is optional as > "desktop effects", XFCE does not use any compositor. Ok, I understood now. So, what is the best approach to solve this problem? There is a chance to have it working as at old versions of Gnome (I wore an old Gnome version (3.2, I think...), with my old SmartTV 1920x1200 and was great!)
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #3) > > You missed the "opengl based compositor" part. In KDE this is optional as > > "desktop effects", XFCE does not use any compositor. > > Ok, I understood now. > So, what is the best approach to solve this problem? There is a chance to have > it working as at old versions of Gnome (I wore an old Gnome version (3.2, I > think...), with my old SmartTV 1920x1200 and was great!) You can use older versions of GNOME, or other desktops which don't use OpenGL compositors such as MATE, XFCE or KDE. Nothing else we can do here for this hardware. Closing this as a duplicate of bug 646280 which is where the checks should live. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 646280 ***