Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 17:22:28 -0500 From: "Darryl N. Grant" <dngrant@bandwidth-junkies.net> To: Louis Munro <louismunro@altern.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xinerama setup on kde 3.1.4 Message-ID: <1075933348.60403.8.camel@labonte.bandwidth-junkies.net> In-Reply-To: <200402041317.26645.louismunro@altern.org> References: <200402041317.26645.louismunro@altern.org>
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On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 13:17, Louis Munro wrote: > Hello everyone, > I'm posting this here after trying the freebsd-x11mailing list as it didn't > produce the expected results. Hopefully someone among you will know more > about this than I... > I'm trying to setup KDE to display in full xinerama on my new computer. I > have an nvidia GFX5600 which is capable of displaying on two monitors (I've > got it working with windows Xp) but I can't seems to get it right on > FreeBSD: X only displays on one monitor and just blanks out the other. So I > have a few questions: > --Do I have to compile Xfree86 with some special arguments to enable > xinerama? I installed it from the cd (4.9 stable, world remade about a week > ago). --Does KDE 3.1.4 support xinerama? Do I have to do anything special to > enable it? > --I haven't found all that much information about configuring xinerama. Have > I missed anything? > > I'm appending my XFree86config so you guys can tell me if it's something in > there that's incorrect. Have you tried multiple montior resolutions? Do you have the nvidia kernel module loaded? I also do not see the TwinView Identifier in your config. I had to add that for mine. If you are still having problems, let me know. HTH, Darryl
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