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    Dual Monitor Configuration Problems

    I am trying to use my monitor(DVI) while simultaneously streaming live video to my 42 Inch Plasma(HDMI-Not DVI->HDMI). I have set the HDMI out to be "right of" my DVI connection, and I can load the stream up in Opera, and move it over to the right and it appears on the TV. I was also able to set up a separate but functional KDE panel on my HDTV screen. So the basics are functioning fine. However, I am encountering a few small problems:
    1. Notifications - I made a thread last night regarding my notifications had changed appearance and location(see here). Well I have not applied sumski's suggestion yet, but I am receiving the "new style" notifications on the monitor, but the "old style notifications on my HDTV. I only want the notifications to appear on my monitor.

    2. Full Screen Issues - for the sake of organization I have the stream opened in Opera, and moved Opera to the HDTV. I hit the full screen button on the flash video player controls. However, it only switches to full screen on the monitor, not the HDTV.

    3. Sound - Like I said, this is HDMI out on the GPU to HDMI on the TV, but I can not get the audio to carry over to the TV speakers rather then PC speakers.

    4. Sidebar/Panel - I had previously configured a panel to be on the right side of my screen like a side bar with several widgets laid on top of the panel. Visibility is set to "Always Visible" but none of my programs seem to respect the boundary of the panel's width. Anytime I maximize a window, it acts like the panel is not even there.
    OS: Kubuntu 12.10/Windows 8
    CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K
    Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H
    Memory: 2x4GB Corsair Dominator
    Graphics Card: MSI R7770
    Monitor: Dell 2208WFP
    Mouse: Mionix NAOS 5000
    PSU: Corsair 520HX
    Case: Thermaltake Mozart TX
    Cooling: Thermalright TRUE Black Ultra-120 eXtreme CPU Heatsink Rev C
    Hard Drives: 1x180 GB Intel 330 SSD - 1xWD 1 TB Caviar Black - 1xWD 2 TB Caviar Green - 2xWD 3 TB Caviar Green

    #2
    I might be able to help with #3. I have a similar setup and had massive sound problems at first. From System Settings, go to Multimedia and then Phonon to check your backend. VLC backend works best for me. If you dont already have it installed, you need to install the package phonon-backend-vlc.

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      #3
      Is it possible to set the tv to simply mirror one desktop screen? To elaborate just for the sake of clarity, as it is, my TV functions as an independent screen. I have to actually, Look at the TV to see where my mouse cursor is. Instead, if it were to mirror a specific desktop screen(not necessarily the active screen) it would be easier to control.

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      OS: Kubuntu 12.10/Windows 8
      CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K
      Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H
      Memory: 2x4GB Corsair Dominator
      Graphics Card: MSI R7770
      Monitor: Dell 2208WFP
      Mouse: Mionix NAOS 5000
      PSU: Corsair 520HX
      Case: Thermaltake Mozart TX
      Cooling: Thermalright TRUE Black Ultra-120 eXtreme CPU Heatsink Rev C
      Hard Drives: 1x180 GB Intel 330 SSD - 1xWD 1 TB Caviar Black - 1xWD 2 TB Caviar Green - 2xWD 3 TB Caviar Green

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        #4
        Originally posted by whatthefunk View Post
        I might be able to help with #3. I have a similar setup and had massive sound problems at first. From System Settings, go to Multimedia and then Phonon to check your backend. VLC backend works best for me. If you dont already have it installed, you need to install the package phonon-backend-vlc.
        Nice timing, I was literally just adding on to my post. I will look into the vlc backend. I should have mentioned that I have checked system settings and checked sound is enabled and the hdmi out is recognized as a sound device.

        Sent from my DROID2 Global
        OS: Kubuntu 12.10/Windows 8
        CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K
        Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H
        Memory: 2x4GB Corsair Dominator
        Graphics Card: MSI R7770
        Monitor: Dell 2208WFP
        Mouse: Mionix NAOS 5000
        PSU: Corsair 520HX
        Case: Thermaltake Mozart TX
        Cooling: Thermalright TRUE Black Ultra-120 eXtreme CPU Heatsink Rev C
        Hard Drives: 1x180 GB Intel 330 SSD - 1xWD 1 TB Caviar Black - 1xWD 2 TB Caviar Green - 2xWD 3 TB Caviar Green

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          #5
          Originally posted by Xplorer4x4 View Post
          Is it possible to set the tv to simply mirror one desktop screen? To elaborate just for the sake of clarity, as it is, my TV functions as an independent screen. I have to actually, Look at the TV to see where my mouse cursor is. Instead, if it were to mirror a specific desktop screen(not necessarily the active screen) it would be easier to control.

          Sent from my Droid 2 Global
          Do you have a Nvidia GPU? If so, you can go to Nvidia X Server Settings and set Position to "Clones."

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            #6
            Could you give more detail on how you've set this up? If you're using an xorg.conf file please attach a copy of it.

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              #7
              Originally posted by whatthefunk View Post
              Do you have a Nvidia GPU? If so, you can go to Nvidia X Server Settings and set Position to "Clones."
              Nope, ATI card.

              Originally posted by oshunluvr View Post
              Could you give more detail on how you've set this up? If you're using an xorg.conf file please attach a copy of it.
              I am not sure what I can offer with out specific requests. I can grab some screen shots of some of my display settings. The TV it self worked like plug and play. Everything I have tweaked is in the system settings options.

              One thing driving me nuts atm, I can now click full screen for the stream playing through Opera on the TV. However, when I click anything on my monitors screen, the TV is no longer full screen.
              OS: Kubuntu 12.10/Windows 8
              CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K
              Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H
              Memory: 2x4GB Corsair Dominator
              Graphics Card: MSI R7770
              Monitor: Dell 2208WFP
              Mouse: Mionix NAOS 5000
              PSU: Corsair 520HX
              Case: Thermaltake Mozart TX
              Cooling: Thermalright TRUE Black Ultra-120 eXtreme CPU Heatsink Rev C
              Hard Drives: 1x180 GB Intel 330 SSD - 1xWD 1 TB Caviar Black - 1xWD 2 TB Caviar Green - 2xWD 3 TB Caviar Green

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                #8
                Maybe of little help but on this nVidia machine I can set Opera to full screen (F11) on one monitor and do other things on the other monitor without affecting Opera.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Teunis View Post
                  Maybe of little help but on this nVidia machine I can set Opera to full screen (F11) on one monitor and do other things on the other monitor without affecting Opera.
                  Thanks for the tip. It was not quite that simple. In this case, I had to click pop out on the flash players controls, maximize the pop out player, and then choose full screen!

                  3. Sound - I am still unsuccessful in getting sound over HDMI using the VLC or phonon backends.

                  4. Sidebar/Panel - I fixed this issue by choosing to set HDMI to "left of DVI-0"

                  Still curious if I can mirror only "Desktop 2" to the HDMI while keeping Desktop 1 as a monitor only Desktop? It would be easier to control the applications on the TV if I could see it represented right in front of me.
                  OS: Kubuntu 12.10/Windows 8
                  CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K
                  Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H
                  Memory: 2x4GB Corsair Dominator
                  Graphics Card: MSI R7770
                  Monitor: Dell 2208WFP
                  Mouse: Mionix NAOS 5000
                  PSU: Corsair 520HX
                  Case: Thermaltake Mozart TX
                  Cooling: Thermalright TRUE Black Ultra-120 eXtreme CPU Heatsink Rev C
                  Hard Drives: 1x180 GB Intel 330 SSD - 1xWD 1 TB Caviar Black - 1xWD 2 TB Caviar Green - 2xWD 3 TB Caviar Green

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                    #10
                    Are you using the open source driver, or Catalyst (fglrx)?

                    Reason I ask is that I'm sure I read somewhere that HDMI audio support is only available with the proprietary driver.
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                      #11
                      Open source drivers. Are the Catalyst drivers as stable as the open source drivers?
                      OS: Kubuntu 12.10/Windows 8
                      CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K
                      Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H
                      Memory: 2x4GB Corsair Dominator
                      Graphics Card: MSI R7770
                      Monitor: Dell 2208WFP
                      Mouse: Mionix NAOS 5000
                      PSU: Corsair 520HX
                      Case: Thermaltake Mozart TX
                      Cooling: Thermalright TRUE Black Ultra-120 eXtreme CPU Heatsink Rev C
                      Hard Drives: 1x180 GB Intel 330 SSD - 1xWD 1 TB Caviar Black - 1xWD 2 TB Caviar Green - 2xWD 3 TB Caviar Green

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Xplorer4x4 View Post
                        Open source drivers. Are the Catalyst drivers as stable as the open source drivers?
                        I can't speak to that as it's been a while since I last used a Radeon graphics card. However, the catalyst drivers may not be an option for you, as I believe they dropped support for anything older than the 5xxx series GPUs.
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                        "Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."
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                          #13
                          I set out to google some answers, not sure why I didnt think to google it before, just busy I guess..anyways I found 2 links that are worth mentioning here:
                          http://voices.canonical.com/david.he...-ubuntu-12-04/
                          HDMI Audio is disabled by default, but can be enabled(beta at this point), As I understand it I simply need to add "radeon.audio=1" to grub then "sudo update-grub." Is this correct?

                          http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...yproducts.aspx
                          From what I understand driver updates are being killed off for Win8. No reference to linux.
                          Last edited by Xplorer4x4; Jul 22, 2012, 04:25 PM.
                          OS: Kubuntu 12.10/Windows 8
                          CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K
                          Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H
                          Memory: 2x4GB Corsair Dominator
                          Graphics Card: MSI R7770
                          Monitor: Dell 2208WFP
                          Mouse: Mionix NAOS 5000
                          PSU: Corsair 520HX
                          Case: Thermaltake Mozart TX
                          Cooling: Thermalright TRUE Black Ultra-120 eXtreme CPU Heatsink Rev C
                          Hard Drives: 1x180 GB Intel 330 SSD - 1xWD 1 TB Caviar Black - 1xWD 2 TB Caviar Green - 2xWD 3 TB Caviar Green

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                            #14
                            Ah yes, the flash player looses full screen when touching anything else.
                            I went to youtube, selected some movie and right clicked it to copy the URL.
                            Then I pasted the URL in the VLC player as a network stream and made it play full screen.
                            This will remain full screen when doing other things.

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                              #15
                              For what it's worth, the instructions I posted, work on Justin.tv. The only small nuisance is the the flash controls will not go away. Well that and the stream is in 4:3 not 16:9, but atleast I managed to achieve 99% full screen with a flash video.
                              OS: Kubuntu 12.10/Windows 8
                              CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K
                              Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H
                              Memory: 2x4GB Corsair Dominator
                              Graphics Card: MSI R7770
                              Monitor: Dell 2208WFP
                              Mouse: Mionix NAOS 5000
                              PSU: Corsair 520HX
                              Case: Thermaltake Mozart TX
                              Cooling: Thermalright TRUE Black Ultra-120 eXtreme CPU Heatsink Rev C
                              Hard Drives: 1x180 GB Intel 330 SSD - 1xWD 1 TB Caviar Black - 1xWD 2 TB Caviar Green - 2xWD 3 TB Caviar Green

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