I have been playing with my X-configuration this weekend and I can not really get it to work the way I like. My desktop box has two Nvidia cards installed with one monitor connected to each. On to of that I am running KDE (v 4.3.5 at the moment).
# lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a1) 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a1) If I have "Option Xinerama on" in the ServerLayout section in xorg.conf then KDE uses both monitors (in Xinerama "mode") but I can not use any "Desktop effects" as "Compositing is not supported". Also a lot of GUI programs reports "Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0"." If I set "Option Xinerama off" in xorg.conf then KDE only "runs" on one of the monitors and the "Desktop effects" works great. And the other GUI's does not give me that Xlkib error message. But now the only way to start a GUI on the second Monitor is to prefix it with DISPLAY=:0.1 or use --display :0.1. Does someone have any suggestion how I can "get the best of both worlds"? i.e. Compositing && KDE using both monitors. -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *************************************************** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! ***************************************************
