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FearTheCron
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 Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 3:00 am Post subject: KDE 3.5 with twinview |
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I am having the problem that kde treats both of my monitors like one giant display instead of two sepparate displays when using twinview. The task bar will extend all the way across both monitors, the windows will maximize to fill both displays, none of the monitor specific settings in the control panel such as wallpaper gives the option for more than one monitor. I have attempted to rebuid the system with xinerama support from posts that i have found on other forums( `USE="xinerama" emerge --newuse world` ), however this did not work, i have also messed with the nvidia-settings with no success. The xorg.conf is posted below.
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# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (root@Shiva) Mon Feb 9 15:57:11 MST 2009
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
# Load "dri"
Load "record"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "glx"
Load "GLcore"
Load "xtrap"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "DELL 2007WFP"
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "DELL 2007WFP"
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "Unknown Board"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 9800 GT"
Option "RenderAccel"
Option "HWcursor"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 9800 GT"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
# Removed Option "TwinView" "1"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: 1680x1050 +0+0, DFP-1: 1680x1050 +1680+0"
# Removed Option "TwinView" "0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: 1680x1050 +0+0"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: 1680x1050 +0+0, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +1680+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Videocard1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
EndSection
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pianosaurus
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:29 am Post subject: |
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You have | Code: | | Option "Xinerama" "0" |
in your xorg.conf. 0 is an alias for false and off, which will most certainly disable xinerama. I don't know if that is your problem, though, but it may be worth a try to set it to 1 (or on or true).
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FearTheCron
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:46 am Post subject: xinerama 1 |
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| I changed the Xinerama option to 1 and it just seems to have broken some stuff monitor related and not done much else, the kde windows still behave the same. |
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FearTheCron
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:07 am Post subject: further investigation |
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I have been digging through the xorg.conf from the kbuntu 8.04 install that did not have this problem with an identical setup, i still have not found the problem but here is the xorg.conf from that install.
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# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildd@yellow) Thu Jun 5 09:27:12 UTC 2008
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by failsafeDexconf, using
# values from the debconf database and some overrides to use vesa mode.
#
# You should use dexconf or another such tool for creating a "real" xorg.conf
# For example:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "DELL 2007WFP"
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "G92-200"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Modes "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: 1680x1050 +0+0, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +1680+0"
EndSection
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I have tried simply switching them out but then the x server will not start, There are a few more things i have an idea of trying, however any ideas would be greatly appreciated. |
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pianosaurus
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:18 am Post subject: |
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Does /var/log/Xorg.0.log mention xinerama at all?
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FearTheCron
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:23 am Post subject: /var/log/Xorg.0.log output |
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This log file does mention xinerama.
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(**) Option "Xinerama" "0"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
(II) Loading extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
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also if it helps at all, here are the lines with twinview:
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(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "TwinView" "1"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
(**) NVIDIA(0): TwinView enabled
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jongeek
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:23 pm Post subject: twinview and xinerama |
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I've been using xinerama/twinview on a GeForce 6150 and GeForce 7300 for some time. I had the same problem you did initially, and it was related to packages not having been built with the xinerama USE flag enabled. I can post a working xorg.conf if you'd like, but your options look sane. I remember reading somewhere that if you disable the Xorg xinerama extension (as you have done in your xorg.conf) the NVidia Xinerama extension will still load (as indicated in your log file). Really, though it sounds like your problem is with xinerama support in kwin.
What does
show ? Is the xinerama use flag enabled for kwin ?
Avoid USE="blah" on the command line with emerge except for testing and occasional experimentation. Add xinerama to your make.conf USE flags so it is global, forever. Then try:
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emerge -uDNpv world
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The -D (deep) flag will search for dependencies of the packages in world, instead of just the packages directly listed in world. It sounds like something in KDE was not actually built with the xinerama USE flag. |
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FearTheCron
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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It looks like the problem is that kwin was compiled with -xinerama. I have had xinerama in the use flags so I assume something else went wrong. I appreciate all of your help, but due to time constraints I am going to switch back to Debian and try Gentoo again when I have more free time.
For anyone else who is having this problem, I would highly recommend checking to see if kwin was compiled with xinerama support even if you have it in your make.conf file, in my case it was in there but it didn't compile in. |
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hvengel
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Did you build qt with the xinerama use flag? If you don't then you will get the behavior you are seeing. Also with TwinView you do not need teh xinerama option set in xorg.conf as TwinView should supply xinerama hints automatically. |
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