On fredag 21. mai 2004, 14:28, Niels Donninger wrote: > So, here's the solution: > Even if you plug two monitors into your videocard, you still make two > sections 'Device' with the same BusID for your videocard. > Notice that I put 'screen 0' in the first device and 'screen 1' in > the second. In an example I saw this thing in the 'ServerLayout' > section, but that didn't work for me.
Thanks for the instructions, it certainly addresses many of the problems I have, but I'm not quite there yet. For those wondering what is going on, Niels found he had the same problem as I reported in this bug, and we started discussing offline, he found some solutions, and I thought it would be better to address it in the BTS, so others can see. For one thing, for various reasons, I'm using two cards, not a single. That should be straightforward, just use two different BusIDs. > Also notice that I disabled the 'option "MonitorLayout"': When I > enable this one, the whole thing doesn't work. OK, never had it. > In the section 'serverlayout', two screens are defined, one default, > and one with external screen. Notice that the first one is the > default screen and not the external, otherwise it doesn't work > either. (sensitive isn't it ?;-) Yup... > Then, for the xinerama mode, include > a section 'serverflags' where the option 'xinerama' is set to 'true'. Aha, OK. I was lacking this. It is inconvenient for me to use, since I'm usually using the Ruby patches to use two different X servers, with the new IsolateDevice stuff in X and all. However, RTFMing, I discovered that X can take an option +xinerama which should do the same thing, so I used that, and indeed, it made a whole lot of difference. Now, by background image spans two screens, uhm that looks weird... :-) I think I liked the behaviour when it was misconfigured better... > That's for the XF86config. > With all this configured, the 'multiple monitors' option is now > visible in: control center -> peripherals -> display Yup, I see that too, but if I have understood the KDE folks correctly, that's just a small part of the new kcontrol modules. A big part is what you're supposed to find if you go Control Center -> Desktop -> Multiple Monitors, and that's something I still do not see... Admittedly, it seems to make it more and more likely that it is a configuration problem, and so it may be OK to close the bug as invalid and take the discussion elsewhere. Maintainers, please speak up and say so if you think so. But since there still seems to be something missing, I'm continuing... Best, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Astrophysicist/IT Consultant/Skeptic/Ski-orienteer/Orienteer/Mountaineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ OpenPGP KeyID: 6A6A0BBC
