From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 10 11:16:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 415BD37B883 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 11:16:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e4AImWH01733; Wed, 10 May 2000 11:48:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:48:32 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Bryan Albright Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xfree86-4.0 & xinerama Message-ID: <20000510114832.F28180@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000509124310.A5066@thor.oss.uswest.net> <20000509112522.C19135@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000510131329.A63550@thor.oss.uswest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000510131329.A63550@thor.oss.uswest.net>; from bryana@oss.uswest.net on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 01:13:29PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Bryan Albright [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." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message