Xinerama

KeithReuters · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 6:52 pm Post subject: Xinerama

Hello,

I have a GeForce Ti 200 and an STB LightSpeed (PCI).
I've gotten to make them both initialize, however whenever I start X, KDE or whatever, I get two identical screens... that display the same things at the same moment. Pretty useless... Moreover one is 1280x1024 and the other 1024x768 so apps won't take up the whole screen on my 17''. Ah.
I added Xinerama to my XF86Config file, as in described in this HowTo everyone keeps talking about (and that seems the only reference to Xinerama in the whole world wide web

).
Any ideas???
I really want KDE to manage both screens, and to be able to move windows from one screen to another.
If you need my XF86Config or anything, ask. I just don't want to post a huge thing and bother everyone with a 20 page long post.

Greetings from France (snoooooowy

)

Pascal.

addi · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 6:57 pm Post subject: yes, please post XF86Config

but show just the ServerLayout section(s)...

This would be where you put the Xinerama sections...
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addi · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 7:08 pm Post subject: ServerLayout

if you had your two Screen sections labelled as "Screen 0" and "Screen 1", you're ServerLayout section might look like:

KeithReuters · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 9:45 pm Post subject:

Ok, here are the sections you might find interesting :

noff · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 10:50 pm Post subject:

Compiling xfree on gentoo is nothing to be nervous about

KeithReuters · Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 4:46 pm Post subject:

Nuh huh... if emerge xfree works, then I already have Xinerama, since I used the GRP's... I mean, isn't there an option, like emerge xfree --with-xinerama or something?
I was talking about compiling Xfree on an LFS distro

KeithReuters · Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 8:37 pm Post subject:

OK I checked, Xinerama is compiled by default, and I also had a look at my /var/log/XFree86.0.log (or something) file, and at one point it says "Initializing Xinerama extension (built-in)", and there's no error msg.
However, my two screens display the same stuff at the same time, even when I run xdm or twm. I tried activating the Xinerama options in KDE's control panel, without success. Has anyone had this problem?
I thought it had something to do with my two screens running at different resolutions and overlapping, but even if I start both at 1024x768 I get this problem.
Oh, and Konqueror works, but I cannot browse my files anymore... it just hangs up. I tried deleting some config files, but it didn't work. What I did was changing the type of view from "large icons" to "small icons". Does anyone know a simple way of fixing this? Thanks...

Pascal
[Took the TOEFL, and got 245 out of 250, still waiting for my essay rating]

KeithReuters · Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2003 9:39 pm Post subject: Konqueror

I've finally figured how to make Xinerama works. I now have dual-head up and working... In fact you have to mention only ONE screen in the ServerLayout section :
Screen "Screen 1"
Screen "Screen 1" RightOf "Screen 2"
etc.
The second one is only declared implicitely. Took me a while to figure that out.
I still have that problem with the file browser ("explorer :evil:

")... Anyone can help?

Pascal.