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multiple monitors
I have set up 2 monitors for X. One on a Geforce4 mx (agp) and one on a s3 virge 325 (pci). It works more or less, but I can't change the resolution of my primary monitor (on the geforce). It always stays on 640x480. I guess that is a general X problem because it is the same in other windowmanagers.
But on the control center there is a tab for configuring one desktop spread on serveral monitors and it says that I don't seem to have that configuration. But I am looking at my desktop on 2 monitors now, so that isn't correct.
What can I do to fix that?
Thanks,
Curantil
I think I found the problem for the one screen being not in the correct resolution and fixed it.
It looks like I had a too big resolution. (1280x1024, but I already worked for one monitor in that resolution!?)
But kde still doesn't see that I have 1 desktop spread over 2 monitors. Any idea's how to fix that?
If I fix that problem, will kde manage the screens correct (no dialogs spread over 2 screens)? Or what are the settings I will be able to configure in that panel?
How do you get two monitors to work on two different cards? Don't you need a dual-headed card to do that? If that's not ture, please tell me how you set it up, because I have a PCI card that I'm using and an unused motherboard gfx.
"Chopsticks require a person to use 64 muscles and 30 articulate movements simultaneously, which also acts in developing brain potential."
Most of it I did to get monitors on 2 cards came from:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO/
In short I ran "X -configure" to detect my cards. Then I configured the monitors so that they are next to each other. (But I changed some things to get it working as it is now)
Here is my XF86Config file (The ServerLayout and ServerFlags sections are added manualy):
[code:1]
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DefaultServerLayout" "Seperate Monitors"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Merged Monitors"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Seperate Monitors"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Single Monitor"
Screen "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "glx"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
Option "XkbLayout" "be"
Option "XkbVariant" "latin1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce"
Driver "nv"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
#VideoRam 65536
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card1"
Driver "s3virge"
VendorName "S3 Inc."
BoardName "86c325 [ViRGE]"
BusID "PCI:1:7:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "NVIDIA GeForce"
Monitor "dellmonitor"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Card1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubSection
EndSection
[/code:1]
Thanks! I'll try to get this to work when summer vacation starts after next week.
"Chopsticks require a person to use 64 muscles and 30 articulate movements simultaneously, which also acts in developing brain potential."