I have a Matrox G450 Dual-Head card with two monitors hooked up to it. When I first installed Mandrake Linux 10.0, it gave me the option of stretching the desktop across to the second monitor, using Xinerama, which I chose to do.
After a power failure at the house, the display no longer does this, and instead shows the same thing on both monitors. I can't find any configuration option in the GUI configuration system to reinstall/restart Xinerama. Do you know where the config file for this is?
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/etc/X11/xorg.conf or /etc/X11/XF86Config
You can use man to find out the options.
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Leo Mauler wrote:
I have a Matrox G450 Dual-Head card with two monitors hooked up to it. When I first installed Mandrake Linux 10.0, it gave me the option of stretching the desktop across to the second monitor, using Xinerama, which I chose to do.
After a power failure at the house, the display no longer does this, and instead shows the same thing on both monitors. I can't find any configuration option in the GUI configuration system to reinstall/restart Xinerama. Do you know where the config file for this is?
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On Monday 07 February 2005 08:01 pm, D. Hageman wrote:
You can use man to find out the options.
You know, I really can't say how relevant your reply is to the original question, as I've never played with Xinerama, but the above really borders on insulting in the context of this list.
I've been using Linux long enough that having hand-hacked /etc/X11/XF86Config still has a nasty residue in my brain. It doesn't have a 1:1 correspondence with it's man pages, help files, or comments, and determining exactly where a functional configuration came from after it's broken is particularly difficult.
You could at least given the specific manpage, and more helpfully a link to a searchable term in it. The question is specific enough that I don't think it warrants a link to http://www.tldp.org, and I've used that answer here myself.
(Sorry, I've been burned by a couple of "answers" unhelpfully pointing me to generic documentation sites in IRC lately, and I'm touchy about it.)
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
On Monday 07 February 2005 08:01 pm, D. Hageman wrote:
You can use man to find out the options.
You know, I really can't say how relevant your reply is to the original question, as I've never played with Xinerama, but the above really borders on insulting in the context of this list.
I've been using Linux long enough that having hand-hacked /etc/X11/XF86Config still has a nasty residue in my brain. It doesn't have a 1:1 correspondence with it's man pages, help files, or comments, and determining exactly where a functional configuration came from after it's broken is particularly difficult.
You could at least given the specific manpage, and more helpfully a link to a searchable term in it. The question is specific enough that I don't think it warrants a link to http://www.tldp.org, and I've used that answer here myself.
Step 1: Type: man xorg.conf Step 2: Type: / Step 3: Type: Xinerma
My answer addresed his question. He did not ask for anything more then what I provided.
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D. Hageman wrote:
Step 1: Type: man xorg.conf Step 2: Type: / Step 3: Type: Xinerma
My answer addresed his question. He did not ask for anything more then what I provided.
You might as well have not posted anything at all and have contributed equally while saving yourself the effort.
On Monday 07 February 2005 10:31 pm, D. Hageman wrote:
Step 1: Type: man xorg.conf Step 2: Type: /Xinerma
Option "Xinerama" "boolean" enable or disable XINERAMA extension. Default is disabled.
It's possible that the problem is that simple. Leo, can youcheck that option in your config file? (It's the same in the XF86Config man page.)
I noted that the option is there, but the boolean value was missing. I'll give that a shot with a "True" value and see what happens.
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On Monday 07 February 2005 10:31 pm, D. Hageman wrote:
Step 1: Type: man xorg.conf Step 2: Type: /Xinerma
Option "Xinerama" "boolean" enable or disable XINERAMA extension. Default is disabled.
It's possible that the problem is that simple. Leo, can youcheck that option in your config file? (It's the same in the XF86Config man page.) _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list [email protected] http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
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Well, making that one change hosed the XF86Config-4 file.
Lets all say it together: Backups Are Our Friend.
I had a backup copy of the original right-after-first-install XF86Config-4 file which fixed the problem (and it, too, doesn't have a boolean value next to Option "Xinerama". Huh.)
--- Leo Mauler [email protected] wrote:
I noted that the option is there, but the boolean value was missing. I'll give that a shot with a "True" value and see what happens.
--- Jonathan Hutchins [email protected] wrote:
On Monday 07 February 2005 10:31 pm, D. Hageman wrote:
Step 1: Type: man xorg.conf Step 2: Type: /Xinerma
Option "Xinerama" "boolean" enable or disable XINERAMA
extension.
Default is disabled.
It's possible that the problem is that simple.
Leo,
can youcheck that option in your config file? (It's the same in the XF86Config man page.)
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On Wednesday 09 February 2005 11:27 pm, Leo Mauler wrote:
Well, making that one change hosed the XF86Config-4 file.
Lets all say it together: Backups Are Our Friend.
I had a backup copy of the original right-after-first-install XF86Config-4 file which fixed the problem (and it, too, doesn't have a boolean value next to Option "Xinerama". Huh.)
I don't suppose you saved the "broken" file so you could diff it and see what was wrong?
I looked in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (which is the config file on this machine) but the "Xinerama" option is already selected in the config file.
Is there a way to reinstall whatever Xinerama utility/application the XF86Config-4 file is calling?
--- "D. Hageman" [email protected] wrote:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf or /etc/X11/XF86Config
You can use man to find out the options.
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Leo Mauler wrote:
I have a Matrox G450 Dual-Head card with two monitors hooked up to it. When I first installed Mandrake Linux 10.0, it gave me the option of stretching the desktop across to the second monitor, using Xinerama, which I chose to do.
After a power failure at the house, the display no longer does this, and instead shows the same thing on both monitors. I can't find any configuration option in the GUI configuration system to reinstall/restart Xinerama. Do you know where the config file for this is?
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On Monday 7 February 2005 19:24, Leo Mauler wrote:
After a power failure at the house, the display no longer does this, and instead shows the same thing on both monitors. I can't find any configuration option in the GUI configuration system to reinstall/restart Xinerama. Do you know where the config file for this is?
Here is a fairly robust setup that I used to use when I dual-headed. I've found that having two computers is more valuable for me, though. The file attached is very complicated so let me explain: there are three setups in this file. Each setup is named Multihead, Simple and SimpleLCD respectively. Look at the bottom of the file for these sections and then follow their references to the other sections to see how it works.
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