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drakonite l33t
Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 768 Location: Lincoln, NE
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Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 9:42 am Post subject: Dual Monitors |
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I'm planning on hooking up another monitor to my computer soon (as soon as i can fix the color issue...).
I have two separate video cards (Geforece2MX and a Voodoo3).
I know there is more than one way of doing this... So what are the different ways to set up dual monitors and which ways work best?
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zaftro n00b
Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Posts: 39 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 10:41 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
I've also been thinking about doing this...
There's a howto on Xinerama (which is here). Hopefully that helps, but you've probably already read it.
Goodluck anyways,
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ciscoman n00b
Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 7 Location: London, UK
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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 12:09 am Post subject: Window Managers a problem |
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Hope you like KDE, in my experience (about 1 year ago now admittedly) KDE was the only WM to properly handle Xinerama. When it's up it does rock though javascript:emoticon('')
Under KDE the toolbar stretches straight across the bottom of both screens as a single bar and you can move apps from screen 1 to screen 2. With ur WM supporting Xinerama the two screens are completely independent.
Good luck, post back any problems and I'll trall through my distant memory 4 ya! _________________ Editor - www.ipnetworker.org
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drakonite l33t
Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 768 Location: Lincoln, NE
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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 12:11 am Post subject: Re: Window Managers a problem |
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ciscoman wrote: | Hope you like KDE |
Hmm... Uh oh.... I like E myself......
What other options are there besides Xinerama? I know there are more ways.... |
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ciscoman n00b
Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 7 Location: London, UK
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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 12:31 am Post subject: Two's up :-) |
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It's perfectly feasable to add Device & Monitor statements to XF86Config for everything just make sure you add the right PCI statements for the right Device - Monitor combos.
Read the Xinerama doco but don't actually do the xinit --xinerama (from memory) bit. _________________ Editor - www.ipnetworker.org
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jetblack Guru
Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 340 Location: Evanston, IL, USA
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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 1:07 am Post subject: Re: Window Managers a problem |
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drakonite wrote: | ciscoman wrote: | Hope you like KDE |
Hmm... Uh oh.... I like E myself......
What other options are there besides Xinerama? I know there are more ways.... |
I used E(16) with Xinerama for a while. It worked fine.
You can also just have 2 independent monitors, but that's nowhere near as fun. |
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ciscoman n00b
Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 7 Location: London, UK
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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 1:43 am Post subject: |
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Ahhh, I remember, you have to add it as an option at compile time (a year ago!).
Supposed to by builtin all the way under E17 I think? _________________ Editor - www.ipnetworker.org
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paul138 Guru
Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Posts: 370 Location: Ottawa, ON
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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 2:19 am Post subject: |
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You dont need a compile option. Xinerama support is just there.
All I did to set it up was run XFree86 -configure and tweak the XF86Confg.new file. It found both cards and monitors. You can then mod the file for your needs.
WM's that work (here) WindowMaker, Enlightenment (if I remember correctly), flux/blackbox. Gnome2 has no support for this. _________________ Talk is cheap because supply always exceeds demand. |
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ciscoman n00b
Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 7 Location: London, UK
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nempo Guru
Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 360 Location: Linkoping, Sweden
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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 7:54 am Post subject: |
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paul138 wrote: | You dont need a compile option. Xinerama support is just there.
All I did to set it up was run XFree86 -configure and tweak the XF86Confg.new file. It found both cards and monitors. You can then mod the file for your needs.
WM's that work (here) WindowMaker, Enlightenment (if I remember correctly), flux/blackbox. Gnome2 has no support for this. |
Gnome2 has perfectly good xinerama support mind you, it may be that the WM you'r running dosn't but that's another matter. |
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krusty_ar Guru
Joined: 03 Oct 2002 Posts: 560 Location: Rosario, Argentina
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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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Hi, it's the third time I'm asking about this and no one seems to know hot to do it:
one of my cards is really old (isa), so it doesn't go to far with colordepth, xinerama, as says in the howto, doesn't support diferent colordepths, so i wanted to leave the second head in text mode, i have to admit that I didn't even plug the second card because i realized that my net card was on my (only) isa bus, ut still, how do I use one card with X and other as a normal tty?? _________________ I am Beta, don't expect correct behaviour from me.
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darkweaseljedi Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 101 Location: Minneapolis, MN
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