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Author: Stephen
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Subject: Re: dual monitor headscratcher
well i have the dual displays working wonderfully, but i loose compiz.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Stephen <> wrote:
> 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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>
>
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> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>
> Stephen
>




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A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen
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