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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 9:42 am    Post subject: Dual Monitors Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 10:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 12:09 am    Post subject: Window Managers a problem Reply with quote

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('8)')

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!
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 12:11 am    Post subject: Re: Window Managers a problem Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 12:31 am    Post subject: Two's up :-) Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 1:07 am    Post subject: Re: Window Managers a problem Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 1:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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?
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 2:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 2:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As I said, some year plus ago that I was trying.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 7:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 1:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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??
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 6:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dual monitor works fine with Xinerama, my only problem is that when I "log out" and try and go back to KDM/XDM, my computer freezes.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=171562

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