On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Jesús Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:39:36 +0000 > "Renato Caldas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Jesús Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I've had such a setup with two screens (1600x1200 and 1204x768) for a long >> > time >> > and using fvwm. Never had a problem with it. >> > >> > so I suspect it's something to do with xorg not being configured >> > correctly. Unless >> > you didn't compile fvwm with proper xinerama support. >> > >> > Well, I was using nvidia's twinview, but that should be irrelevant. >> >> It's not irrelevant. Nvidia twinview is not xinerama, it actually >> creates two X screens. > > I don't know what do you mean by "two screens". But it's not like using dual > head, it behaves and act by all means like xinerama (you can take one window > from one monitor and drop it into the other monitor, and you can resize it so > part of the window is on each monitor).
I shouldn't be talking about "screens" but about "monitors". The nvidia twinview is not xinerama, but a similar xorg extension, and I'm having some trouble with the binary blob... The "modern" extension you want is xrandr 1.2, which comes to replace xinerama. I believe it is a dual head setup, meaning that there is a notion of individual "monitors". The binary blob doesn't currently support xrandr 1.2 AFAIK. I've tested it successfully with the open-source "nouveau" driver. Unfortunately the video memory is currently limited to a 1280x1280 total screen area, which prevents more than two 640x480 side by side monitors... I believe this limitation is arbitrary, but I can't seem to find who sets the limit... Anyway, here are a bunch of sites full of interesting information. http://www.x.org/wiki/Projects/XRandR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinerama Cheers, Renato > Regards. > -- > Jesús Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
