dual monitor headscratcher

Kenny McHenry kennymcaz at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 13:58:40 MST 2009


Usually Xinerama will make it work. So you want to change xinerama "0" in
your xorg.conf to xinerama "1". That should get it to work. At least that's
what has gotten it to work for me before.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:52 PM, wayne <waydavis at cox.net> wrote:

> It is a bit tricky and drove me nearly insane - MINE works, here it is:
>
> > # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
> > # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister at builder57) Thu Jul 17
> > 18:39:19 PDT 2008
> >
> > Section "Screen"
> > Identifier "Screen0"
> > Device "Device0"
> > Monitor "Monitor0"
> > DefaultDepth 24
> > Option "TwinView" "1"
> > Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
> > Option "metamodes" "CRT-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, CRT-1:
> > nvidia-auto-select +1680+0"
> > SubSection "Display"
> > Depth 24
> > EndSubSection
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Device"
> > Identifier "Device0"
> > Driver "nvidia"
> > Vendorname "NVIDIA Corporation"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > # generated from default
> > Identifier "Mouse0"
> > Driver "mouse"
> > Option "Protocol" "auto"
> > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > # generated from default
> > Identifier "Keyboard0"
> > Driver "kbd"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "ServerLayout"
> > Identifier "Layout0"
> > screen 0 "Screen0"
> > Inputdevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> > Inputdevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Module"
> > Load "dbe"
> > Load "extmod"
> > Load "type1"
> > Load "freetype"
> > Load "glx"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Monitor"
> > Identifier "Monitor0"
> > Vendorname "Unknown"
> > Modelname "Unknown"
> > Horizsync 30.0 - 110.0
> > Vertrefresh 50.0 - 150.0
> > Option "DPMS"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Extensions"
> > Option "Composite" "Enable"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Files"
> > Rgbpath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> > EndSection
>
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Kenny McHenry
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