Does Anyone Have Gnome 3 Working With Multiple Monitors!

[aortell24]

Does anyone have gnome 3 working with Dual graphic Cards and multiple monitors specifically amd cards If so Please let me know how you did it I have been at this for a full week now and I am about to give up.PLEASE Let me know.Thanks.

All uppercase post title fixed by NeddySeagoon.

aortell24,
ALL UPPERCASE is considered SHOUTING and therefore it can be seen as offensive.
You are likely to get more help if you don't shout.

[olek]

Did you try http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/X.Org/Dual_Monitors?
What's your problem exactly?
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[Xeggs]

[gorkypl]

Edited, I thought you were asking about open 'radeon' drivers.
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[aortell24]

I have multiple amd cards working perfectly under backtrack 5 r2 right now.Thanks you Xeggs I will look into that.

[aortell24]

My problem is that every time I alter the xorg.conf file the gnome menu distorts so badly I have to reinstall gentoo just to get the menu the way it should be.The only way I can get gnome 3 to work is with the radeon drivers and then I only have one card with two monitors on it.

[Xeggs]

Aortell24, can you please post your xorg.conf file?
Also what kind of error do you get when you make
modifications? Is it something in the trend of X server
could not read your conf file correctly? Or are not all
screens activated? Or something else maybe?

[aortell24]

I am using the radeon drivers which do not require a xorg.conf file all that is in there is the mouse remap for my mouse which is the cyborg rat 3 which requires a button remap section but other than that my xorg file is empty what happens is when I try editing it or using the fglrx drivers the top menu bar gets scrambled there are five or six copys of the menus and there is a big black bars acrooss the top and bottom of the screen every time I exit out of gnome back to the console and startx again the black bars get bigger.It reminds me of backtrack after I enable the second card in the catalyst control center it scrambles the menu but when I enable xinerama the menus go back the way are suppose to only in gnome 3 they stay scrambled when this happens the only way I can fix it is to reinstall gentoo with the radeon drivers .I will post a copy of the xorg.conf I tried to edit for gnome 3 but this also scrambled the menu.The only way I can get it to work is with the radeon drivers and not touching the xorg.Here is the xorg I tried to use. I have gnome 3 installed on my laptop and love it .Thanks alot for the replies.

[hedmo]

[Xeggs]

Aortell24, what are the names of the Graphics
Cards that you are using? It could be that you
cannot use fglrx since your GC's might not support
it. And is it true that you have five screens or did you
forget to disable some?

[aortell24]

I did a little trimming but I am not sure what is needed and what isnt.Is this any better.[update this will not startx it says no screens found]

[hedmo]

[aortell24]

Thanks for the reply but if I run Xorg -config it distorts the gnome 3 menu so badly the only way I can fix it i to reinstall Gentoo and gnome if I modify that file in any way the menus distorts it will display multiple copies of the menus i counted 8 copies of the gnome-fallback menu this last time I am currently in the process of reinstalling because I tried to modify the xorg file again .If I am the only person that has come across this I have to be doing something but what it is I dont know ? I know my cards are not the best but they could handle gnome 2 with compiz and cracking wifi with Opencl at the same time on backtrack, .

[aortell24]

I am very happy to say I have gnome light 3.2.1 installed with two of my three monitors working I put my two biggest monitors on my first card and compiled the radeon drivers into the kernel I am getting 1024x768 resolution on my second monitor which is way to big It is all that xrandr says my monitor is capable of which is not true but I am terrified to touch the xorg file so I guess I am just going to have to live with two monitors and terrible resolution on one you now I am starting wonder if I like gnome 3 this much? Yea I do! Any way for me to get xrandr to change the resolution with out touching the xorg.conf file.

[hedmo]

[aortell24]

I will do that as soon as I get home tonight thank you for the suggestion.

[aortell24]

Here is lspci

[hedmo]

aortell24


unless I'm wrong. I think it is not an easy task.are you after a "eyefinity" type of setup with your
2x radeon hd 4xxx cards and have one monitor on one card .if i am correct you will need a xorg.conf file.
in your xorg.log ,i did not find your other card.does all your screens start when you startx


regards hedmo

[aortell24]

Right now I am running backtrack 5 r2 which in case you are not fa-miler with(most people are not) it is a version of ubuntu 10.4 lucid.I have my main monitor on the first card this is my primary desktop with the menu on it. My other card has my left and right monitor on it they are just showing the wallpaper .I have guake open on my left monitor I use it as a terminal and the right monitor I usually have firefox on. the only monitor that contains any menu is my primary .I can move windows from monitor to monitor .and each monitor has its own wallpaper the wallpapers are the same but its not one big stretched image is what I am trying to say. I dont know what this is called but this is what I am trying to do on gnome 3 but it does not work.On backtrack I have to install the amd drivers which is like a bundle file downloaded from amd .I pretty much have to have amdcccle to do this on backtrack but with xinerama enabled it all works perfectly on backtrack.Now if I uncheck
the xinerama option in amdccle on backtrack the menu on my primary screen distorts and shows like five or six copies of the menu this is what happens to the gnome 3 menu when I run the fglrx drivers or if I edit the xorg.conf file on gnome 3 the only difference is on backtrack if i enable xinerama the menu is fixed and everything works perfectly.This is not the case with gnome 3 I have to reinstall gentoo and use the radeon drivers to get the menus correctly displayed again.I have gnome 3 installed on my laptop and i really love it I just cant go from having 3 monitors to one.I am not sure if this is eyefinity or not but this is what I am tring to get to.I think the option in the amdcccle is called single display multiple desktops.But the only display that has any menus on it is the primary
display and this is the one on my first card.Thanks for the replies I hope this clears up what I am trying to do .On my current setup on backtrack all my monitors do start or turn on when i startx but while it is booting and before startx only my primary the first card are on.

[hedmo]

aortell24


amdccle is for the x11-driver/ati-drivers and you have to set the qt4 useflag in make.conf to have it .
i have that setup on my box with the ati-driver but on one card. the name of it is multi-display desktop(s) with 1,2,3. i had the samesetup with my old 2x2900xt but i did not manage to get it up to 100% stable.for xf86-video-ati i did not get it to work at all on my 2x2900xt but now it can be possible i think.if you want to use the xf86-video-ati i think you need to set it up like this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1551966

but for ati-drivers it can bee more easy if you want a setup like mine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlM2Bik98Y8

regards hedmo

[aortell24]

That is really cool is that 3 different monitors?Hey you use KDE have you seen the gentoo live cd, what is that clear screenlet deal on the desktop that shows you what is in that directory, also there is a another one on the desktop right next to it that the gentoo news is displayed on I looked in the /var/lib/portage/world file to see what it was called but couldnt find it I really like that .I had KDE on slackware working with both cards I never thought about using KDE.The only problem with that is I was told you cant use xinerama with compiz I couldnt get it working on backtrack .Do you have xinerama enabled?

[aortell24]

I am happy with the gnome 3 set up with just two monitors I just need to change the resolution on my second monitor gnome sets it as 1024x768 and thats way to big.How do I do that with out changin the xorg file.

[BillWho]

Check your list of supported screen sizes with xrandr and set it with xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x1024_60.00

You can add the line to ~/.xprofile to set it on startup

Good luck
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[aortell24]

Thank you very much I will give that a try.

[aortell24]

BillWho thank you very much that worked perfectly I am so happy I have a working Gnome 3 desktop with two monitors with proper resolution maybe some day I can get my second card and third monitor working but this is great thanks alot man.