Post by oblio on Jun 11, 2023 6:25:46 GMT
Hello Community!
I hope all are well!
I recently swapped out the video card in my main system so that I could finally run my two monitors at 1440 as they were designed for. I've been putting off buying a video card (or the pandemic did for me and everyone else, rather...) for some time and finally decided to bite.
I picked up a "budget" workstation card, for about $190 - Radeon HD7750 eye 4 - a small formfactor card designed to push up to (4) - 4k monitors. I say "budget", because you can really drop some coin on workstation video cards...(e.g. NVIDIA A100 40GB 5120-bit HBM2 PCI Express 4.0 x16 FHFL...that will set you back +$11k on Newegg currently...). More budget than I wanted to spend...but anyway..
Cleaned my PC inside and out, pulled out all fans so they could be completely cleaned, dusted heat sinks, removed the back panel and cleaned that, etc...nice and clean. Happy OCD clean.
Next, dropped in the the video card, booted up Bodhi Linux and presto! Two working monitors.
Right away I noticed the resolution was off, so I did the responsible thing, and updated my system (as one does after making hardware or significant software changes) before making any adjustments/changes to resolution, etc.. Ran our dear friends...
Updates ran without issue. Restarted for kicks and again, presto! Things are looking great! So far, everything is excellent!
Then I started playing with my monitor configuration (I used -> preferences -> Monitor Settings) and set my monitors for how they are physically configured - like a "T" tipped to its side, to the right. In other words, my left monitor is running in landscape mode (set as Primary), while my right monitor is running in portrait mode.
I was able to get everything configured so that both monitors are running at 1440, spanned, and look glorious. It was genuinely easy to configure and more-or-less without issue. I rebooted to ensure my settings stuck, which they did! Awesome!
Unfortunately, when I started trying to use the right monitor (portrait mode), for whatever reason when any window is moved to that monitor, the second I release the window, it snaps immediately to the dead center of that monitor. The window cannot be moved anywhere on that monitor without snapping back. Any other windows moved to that monitor also snap immediately to the center, but then the boarder on the top window starts to strobe/have a seizure. Closing one of the windows stops the strobing/blinking/seizure behavior.
One other clue I can provide that is while anything is active on the right portrait mode monitor, anything on my left landscape monitor becomes, not so much unresponsive, but you can't click on anything on those windows or enter any text. You can still drag the window around and change it's size. But it's like focus remains locked on the window on the right monitor, on that one dead-center window no matter what. If you click on any open window on the left monitor and start attempting to type, it will enter where cursor was last on the right monitor.
I tried to search the forums but didn't see anything quite like the behavior I'm experiencing. Additionally, I tried to check around for any tiling settings or window focus settings but didn't see anything specifically out of sorts.
I'm suspecting there a setting I missed or should double check, or is this possibly a bug?
Please let me know if you need any additional output from my system.
Thank you, Community.
I hope all are well!
I recently swapped out the video card in my main system so that I could finally run my two monitors at 1440 as they were designed for. I've been putting off buying a video card (or the pandemic did for me and everyone else, rather...) for some time and finally decided to bite.
I picked up a "budget" workstation card, for about $190 - Radeon HD7750 eye 4 - a small formfactor card designed to push up to (4) - 4k monitors. I say "budget", because you can really drop some coin on workstation video cards...(e.g. NVIDIA A100 40GB 5120-bit HBM2 PCI Express 4.0 x16 FHFL...that will set you back +$11k on Newegg currently...). More budget than I wanted to spend...but anyway..
Cleaned my PC inside and out, pulled out all fans so they could be completely cleaned, dusted heat sinks, removed the back panel and cleaned that, etc...nice and clean. Happy OCD clean.
Next, dropped in the the video card, booted up Bodhi Linux and presto! Two working monitors.
Right away I noticed the resolution was off, so I did the responsible thing, and updated my system (as one does after making hardware or significant software changes) before making any adjustments/changes to resolution, etc.. Ran our dear friends...
sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgradeUpdates ran without issue. Restarted for kicks and again, presto! Things are looking great! So far, everything is excellent!
Then I started playing with my monitor configuration (I used -> preferences -> Monitor Settings) and set my monitors for how they are physically configured - like a "T" tipped to its side, to the right. In other words, my left monitor is running in landscape mode (set as Primary), while my right monitor is running in portrait mode.
I was able to get everything configured so that both monitors are running at 1440, spanned, and look glorious. It was genuinely easy to configure and more-or-less without issue. I rebooted to ensure my settings stuck, which they did! Awesome!
Unfortunately, when I started trying to use the right monitor (portrait mode), for whatever reason when any window is moved to that monitor, the second I release the window, it snaps immediately to the dead center of that monitor. The window cannot be moved anywhere on that monitor without snapping back. Any other windows moved to that monitor also snap immediately to the center, but then the boarder on the top window starts to strobe/have a seizure. Closing one of the windows stops the strobing/blinking/seizure behavior.
One other clue I can provide that is while anything is active on the right portrait mode monitor, anything on my left landscape monitor becomes, not so much unresponsive, but you can't click on anything on those windows or enter any text. You can still drag the window around and change it's size. But it's like focus remains locked on the window on the right monitor, on that one dead-center window no matter what. If you click on any open window on the left monitor and start attempting to type, it will enter where cursor was last on the right monitor.
I tried to search the forums but didn't see anything quite like the behavior I'm experiencing. Additionally, I tried to check around for any tiling settings or window focus settings but didn't see anything specifically out of sorts.
I'm suspecting there a setting I missed or should double check, or is this possibly a bug?
Please let me know if you need any additional output from my system.
Thank you, Community.
