On Friday 05 April 2002 16:24, Daniel Pearson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 05, 2002, Amir Tal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the following: > > i am using 2 monitors here with 2 VGA cards, GEforce2 MX400, and ATI > > Mach64. both cards are listed in lspci, and seems to be configured OK, > > but i cant start the other card+monitor using xinerama. startx +ximerama > > gives an error message. > > > > in mandrake, XFree86 --configure did the work, and created a new > > configuration file that worked with both cards. seems like things are a > > bit different in RH land. the help file (XFree86 --help) says to use the > > +xinerama option, but it doesn't work. XFree claims : bad option > > "+xinerama". > > You probably don't have your XF86Config file set up for doing xinerama. You > need to have both cards defined, both monitors defined, and you need to > have sections which specify which monitor is bound to which card, and > finally you need to have a "layout" section for defining how the monitors > are arranged with respect to each other (i.e. whether the second screen is > left of the first one, or right of it, or above it, or whatever). > > The Xinerama HOWTO <http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO.html> > tells you how to do all this. If you still can't get it to work after > using the HOWTO, then post your XF86Config to the mailing list and perhaps > someone can tell you what you're doing wrong.
whats surprising in all this is the fact that the --configure option works in the XFree86 that comes with mandrake, and does not with RH. its the same version in both disrto's (4.1.0-3). i thought that all options are suppose to be the same for all distro's (was i wrong?) tal. > > > i didn't find any tool that knows how to do that in RH (Xconfigurator > > doesn't either) and the most weird thing is that the "use xinerama > > extention" option that used to be in Kcontrol in mandrake, is not here. > > That's not terribly surprising. Kcontrol is designed to be extended with > modules, and obviously Mandrake included a kcontrol module for configuring > XFree86, while Red Hat didn't. -- -------------------------------------- Amir Tal, System Administrator Whatsup - Linux related news And support - in hebrew ! icq : 15748705 http://www.whatsup.org.il -------------------------------------- ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
