> >> KDE 4.11 has KScreen, which is supposed to provide easy management > >> of multi screen configuration. > > > Trying to go more minimalist, not more bloatist :-) :-) > > You might have to anyway. According to the last section on > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multihead#Xinerama it appears > what's getting in the way of success is KDE itself.
Felix, thanks again. As for KDE, this link's info is dated 2012, and so I assume it's referring to KDE4, whereas I'm running KDE3.5. I can hope that my KDE3 will continue working in the long run, but if I have to ditch it, it'll be ok, and probably even a good thing :=) I tried startx'ing with only bare IceWM rather than KDE3, and got no different behavior. > In spite of having seen that over an hour ago, I've been spending more > time trying myself. Wow, there's so much here that I am in no position to understand. Your hardware situation seems very similar to mine, but there are differences too (below). > When I put the Radeon back in the slot, the string HDMI is nowhere to > be found in the log, though this may be about a BIOS setting. There appears to be nothing related to graphics in my BIOS menus. > Apparently with this motherboard at least, whichever between onboard > and PEG is specified excludes use of the other. Output of lspci seems > to confirm. Not apparently true for my machine (Dell XPS tower). To begin with, Win7 can use both displays in this setup just fine :=) > Likely similar is responsible for your blank #2 display. Do you ever > see both Intel Graphics and Radeon Graphics in your lspci output? My #2 is not always blank, but occasionally weird things appear. And yes, both of my GPUs are reported by lspci in a way that looks completely normal. lspci -k shows which drivers are being used. Nothing seems out of ordinary. > No matter the settings, or whether or not the Radeon is inserted, I've > been able in every case to get output sent to at least two X displays > if all used ports are connected to a single graphics chip. Nice to know... I would be perfectly happy to do this if I had the right kind of monitors or cables/converters to do so, which I don't right now :=) I think I'll play with static configs a little longer, and then just buy an HDMI-VGA converter, so I can have both monitors driven off the Intel card, and be done with it. Dave _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
