[Techtalk] dual screen

Chantal Rosmuller chantal at antenna.nl
Sat Feb 5 00:31:14 EST 2005


Hey thanks Tesla for your input, I added +xinerama in 
/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, but still it didn.t work, then I found this site:
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Xinerama_for_Radeon_9200
And I copied the module settings and videocard device settings from this 
example an then: Dual Screen!
:)

Telsa Gwynne wrote:

>On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:30:39PM +0100 or thereabouts, Chantal Rosmuller wrote:
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>>Telsa Gwynne wrote:
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>>>On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:45:18AM +0100 or thereabouts, Chantal 
>>>Rosmuller wrote:
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>>>Third, I think BusIDs should be in the form "PCI:1:0:0" or "AGP:1:0:0" 
>>>rather than just "1:0:0".
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>>I tried it but it didn't change anything
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>>Maybe I should add that both screens are working but they are giving the 
>>same image twice instead of showing one big screen.
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>Ah! So the monitors work, but Xinerama doesn't? Hmm. Well, I think 
>you have the right stuff in 
>
>  Section "ServerLayout"
>  ...
>  Screen      0  "Screen[0]" 0 0
>  Screen      1  "Screen[1]" RightOf "Screen[0]"
>  EndSection
>
>My layout was a bit simpler; it was just
>
>  Screen          "Default Screen"
>  Screen          "Other Screen" RightOf "Default Screen"
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>..and that seemed to work. I don't know what those 0s and 1s do.
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>How are you starting X? From a virtual console, with "startx"?
>Or with a display manager? (xdm, kdm, gdm) You need to tell the
>display manager about Xinerama. I know how to do that for gdm,
>but I suspect that SuSE uses kdm, which is different. 
>
>And if you are starting X from a virtual console, you need to 
>mention Xinerama there, too. Something like this:
>
>startx -- +xinerama
>
>Telsa
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