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Author: Stephen
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Subject: Re: dual monitor headscratcher
xinerama "1"
That was the winner, Thanks a ton.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Kenny McHenry <> wrote:
> 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 <> 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@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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