How to get extended Screen on 2 monitors on 11.3 with Gnome and ATI?

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Hi,

I have a HP NX8220 notebook (ATI Mobility Radeon X600 graphic card), connected to an additional external monitor. Opensuse 11.3 fine detects the second monitor, but I have two problems:

  1. I can configure the second monitor and have an extended screen (over both monitors - moving the mouse from one to another) using the Monitor settings utility. BUT this only works, as long as Desktop effects are disabled :frowning: When I enable them, the second monitor displays the extended screen, but only on one half of the screen, the other half is “rubbished”! So I look for a configuration, which allows me the described setup with Desktop effects enabled.

  2. Even in the setup described under 1. I am not able to define which monitor is the primary one. That means, I always have the menus on the laptop display, but I want them on the external monitor.

Any ideas?

Joern