Once Ubuntu user returned after a few years messing around with other distros. I have just installed 14.04 and I'm having an issue with my dual monitors. I've Googled this issue only to find solutions for setups with dedicated graphics (Nvidia/ATI) cards.
My laptop is using integrated Intel graphics. I have two monitors attached to my docking station, but Display is not detecting the seperate screens, and they are just being mirrored.
I have tried it with DVI x 2 and DVI + VGA, with no joy. It works fine on Windows.
Any ideas? I'd like to run an extended desktop over dual monitors (as one does).
Thanks in advance.
Edit: This is the output of xrandr:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 32767 x 32767 eDP1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1366x768 60.1 + 40.0 1360x768 59.8 60.0 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 56.2 640x480 59.9 HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP1 connected primary 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 518mm x 324mm 1920x1200 60.0*+ 3840x1200 60.0 2560x1024 60.0 1920x1080 60.0 1600x1200 60.0 1680x1050 60.0 1280x1024 60.0 1280x960 60.0 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 640x480 60.0 720x400 70.1 HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
The problem is that your connection to the external monitors is through a DisplayPort connection to the docking device. The dock is using a single DisplayPort connection to provide both monitors over a single channel. To do this, it is using Multi-Stream Transport (MST), which is not yet well supported in Linux and Xorg.
Until the Hardware Enablement Stack for 14.04 becomes available after 14.10 is released, you won't be able to use the feature with the standard kernel and Xorg packages.
Options until a kernel and Xorg are available via normal channels on 14.04 that include this support, are to use a PPA which contains the back-ports of the necessary versions (assuming that the hardware you have is supported in the newer versions already), or compile your own packages.
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