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Date:      Wed, 10 May 2000 11:48:32 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Bryan Albright <bryana@oss.uswest.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Xfree86-4.0 & xinerama
Message-ID:  <20000510114832.F28180@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000510131329.A63550@thor.oss.uswest.net>; from bryana@oss.uswest.net on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 01:13:29PM -0500
References:  <20000509124310.A5066@thor.oss.uswest.net> <20000509112522.C19135@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000510131329.A63550@thor.oss.uswest.net>

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* Bryan Albright <bryana@oss.uswest.net> [000510 11:45] wrote:
> On 05/09/00 at 11:25, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > haha, I slaved over this same configuration for a whole day, the
> > problem I had was that the g400 only works properly in completely
> > unaccelerated mode and even then I need to start, then kill, then
> > restart X to get it initialised properly.
> > 
> > here's my XF86Config entry for the g400:
> > 
> > Section "Device"
> >     Identifier  "MGA400 AGP"
> >     Chipset      "mgag400"
> >     Driver      "mga"
> >     VideoRam    32768
> >     BusID	"PCI:1:0:0"
> >     Option	"NoAccel"
> >     Option      "NoHWCursor"
> > EndSection
> 
> Hoo ha!  That got it.  I've now got 2 monitors (a dual head
> configuration) that are both up and functioning.  
> 
> Now, here's the rub:  How do I get the the xinerama monitor spanning
> function of XFree86 4 to work?  I'm running enlightenment-0.16.4 up and
> running, and the output from the make command shows that it is
> xinerama-aware...
> ***Cut-N-Paste***
> checking for XineramaQueryExtension in -lXinerama... yes
> 
> and then it calls -lXinerama in a couple of its cc calls...but how do I
> get it to span the 2 monitors/allow me to drag apps between them.
> 
> I am starting windows with "startx +xinerama"  is this correct?

hmm, tried -xinerama?

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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