Re: [gentoo-user] non-Twinview dual screen setup?
On Wednesday 06 Apr 2011 05:00:37 AM Jacob Todd wrote: I have no idea if kde supports xinerama still. yes it more or less does. enable the xinerama flag on kwin, plasma-workspacce et al. no composting tho. -- - Yohan Pereira A man can do as he will, but not will as he will - Schopenhauer
Re: [gentoo-user] non-Twinview dual screen setup?
On Wednesday 06 April 2011 01:00:04 Neil Bothwick wrote: What Aussies lack in Humour they make up for in Beer! But not in Ale. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] non-Twinview dual screen setup?
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:25:16 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I hooked up second monitor to my Nvidia GTX465 card yesterday and wanted to get dual screen running. Unfortunately, except for using Twinview which works fine, I've been unable to do it without Twinview. Twinview itself isn't bad, but I don't like how ever KDE decision I have to take (logout, settings, etc.) always starts spanned across my two monitors. That doesn't happen on my dual screen Intel system. You can change that in the Display Monitors section of KDE's System Settings. -- Neil Bothwick Hi Neil, The problem is that after I'm in KDE it seems the damage is done. Settings-Display thing shows only a single 1920x1080 monitor hooked to 'default'. The second monitor isn't found at all. I suspect that what I need to do next is go back and boot the 2 screen version and see what the X log file actually says. I'm currently using Twinview where Settings-Display shows both monitors. While it's working well there is evidence that X doesn't like the monitor settings in the config file I got using nvidia-settings. Possibly the EDID values are causing X to not enable the second monitor at all in the 2 screen version? Cheers, Mark mark@c2stable ~ $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 665.512] X.Org X Server 1.9.4 Release Date: 2011-02-04 [ 665.512] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 665.512] Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 x86_64 Gentoo [ 665.512] Current Operating System: Linux c2stable 2.6.38-gentoo-r1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 30 12:24:58 PDT 2011 x86_64 [ 665.512] Kernel command line: root=/dev/md126 [ 665.512] Build Date: 13 February 2011 06:29:22AM [ 665.512] [ 665.512] Current version of pixman: 0.20.2 [ 665.512]Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. [ 665.512] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 665.512] (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Wed Apr 6 05:22:43 2011 [ 665.512] (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf [ 665.512] (==) Using config directory: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d [ 665.512] (==) Using system config directory /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d [ 665.512] (==) ServerLayout Layout0 [ 665.512] (**) |--Screen Screen0 (0) [ 665.512] (**) | |--Monitor Monitor0 [ 665.512] (**) | |--Device Device0 [ 665.512] (**) |--Input Device Keyboard0 [ 665.512] (**) |--Input Device Mouse0 [ 665.512] (==) Automatically adding devices [ 665.512] (==) Automatically enabling devices [ 665.512] (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ does not exist. [ 665.512]Entry deleted from font path. [ 665.512] (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/OTF/ does not exist. [ 665.512]Entry deleted from font path. [ 665.512] (==) FontPath set to: /usr/share/fonts/misc/, /usr/share/fonts/Type1/, /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/, /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/ [ 665.512] (==) ModulePath set to /usr/lib64/xorg/modules [ 665.512] (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled. [ 665.512] (WW) Disabling Keyboard0 [ 665.512] (WW) Disabling Mouse0 [ 665.512] (II) Loader magic: 0x7ca080 [ 665.512] (II) Module ABI versions: [ 665.512]X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4 [ 665.512]X.Org Video Driver: 8.0 [ 665.512]X.Org XInput driver : 11.0 [ 665.512]X.Org Server Extension : 4.0 [ 665.513] (--) PCI:*(0:2:0:0) 10de:06c4:3842:1467 rev 163, Mem @ 0xf800/33554432, 0xd800/134217728, 0xd400/67108864, I/O @ 0xac00/128, BIOS @ 0x/524288 [ 665.513] (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket) [ 665.513] (II) LoadModule: extmod [ 665.513] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so [ 665.513] (II) Module extmod: vendor=X.Org Foundation [ 665.513]compiled for 1.9.4, module version = 1.0.0 [ 665.513]Module class: X.Org Server Extension [ 665.513]ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 4.0 [ 665.513] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER [ 665.513] (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension [ 665.513] (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA [ 665.513] (II) Loading extension DPMS [ 665.513] (II) Loading extension XVideo [ 665.513] (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation [ 665.513] (II) Loading extension X-Resource [ 665.513] (II) LoadModule: dbe [ 665.513] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libdbe.so [ 665.513] (II) Module dbe: vendor=X.Org Foundation [ 665.513]compiled for 1.9.4, module version = 1.0.0 [ 665.513]Module class: X.Org Server Extension [ 665.513]ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 4.0 [ 665.513] (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER [ 665.513] (II)
Re: [gentoo-user] non-Twinview dual screen setup?
want to leave this list but I can not, can someone erase me from this list? On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:06, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:25:16 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I hooked up second monitor to my Nvidia GTX465 card yesterday and wanted to get dual screen running. Unfortunately, except for using Twinview which works fine, I've been unable to do it without Twinview. Twinview itself isn't bad, but I don't like how ever KDE decision I have to take (logout, settings, etc.) always starts spanned across my two monitors. That doesn't happen on my dual screen Intel system. You can change that in the Display Monitors section of KDE's System Settings. -- Neil Bothwick Hi Neil, The problem is that after I'm in KDE it seems the damage is done. Settings-Display thing shows only a single 1920x1080 monitor hooked to 'default'. The second monitor isn't found at all. I suspect that what I need to do next is go back and boot the 2 screen version and see what the X log file actually says. I'm currently using Twinview where Settings-Display shows both monitors. While it's working well there is evidence that X doesn't like the monitor settings in the config file I got using nvidia-settings. Possibly the EDID values are causing X to not enable the second monitor at all in the 2 screen version? Cheers, Mark mark@c2stable ~ $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 665.512] X.Org X Server 1.9.4 Release Date: 2011-02-04 [ 665.512] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 665.512] Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 x86_64 Gentoo [ 665.512] Current Operating System: Linux c2stable 2.6.38-gentoo-r1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 30 12:24:58 PDT 2011 x86_64 [ 665.512] Kernel command line: root=/dev/md126 [ 665.512] Build Date: 13 February 2011 06:29:22AM [ 665.512] [ 665.512] Current version of pixman: 0.20.2 [ 665.512]Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. [ 665.512] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 665.512] (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Wed Apr 6 05:22:43 2011 [ 665.512] (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf [ 665.512] (==) Using config directory: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d [ 665.512] (==) Using system config directory /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d [ 665.512] (==) ServerLayout Layout0 [ 665.512] (**) |--Screen Screen0 (0) [ 665.512] (**) | |--Monitor Monitor0 [ 665.512] (**) | |--Device Device0 [ 665.512] (**) |--Input Device Keyboard0 [ 665.512] (**) |--Input Device Mouse0 [ 665.512] (==) Automatically adding devices [ 665.512] (==) Automatically enabling devices [ 665.512] (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ does not exist. [ 665.512]Entry deleted from font path. [ 665.512] (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/OTF/ does not exist. [ 665.512]Entry deleted from font path. [ 665.512] (==) FontPath set to: /usr/share/fonts/misc/, /usr/share/fonts/Type1/, /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/, /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/ [ 665.512] (==) ModulePath set to /usr/lib64/xorg/modules [ 665.512] (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled. [ 665.512] (WW) Disabling Keyboard0 [ 665.512] (WW) Disabling Mouse0 [ 665.512] (II) Loader magic: 0x7ca080 [ 665.512] (II) Module ABI versions: [ 665.512]X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4 [ 665.512]X.Org Video Driver: 8.0 [ 665.512]X.Org XInput driver : 11.0 [ 665.512]X.Org Server Extension : 4.0 [ 665.513] (--) PCI:*(0:2:0:0) 10de:06c4:3842:1467 rev 163, Mem @ 0xf800/33554432, 0xd800/134217728, 0xd400/67108864, I/O @ 0xac00/128, BIOS @ 0x/524288 [ 665.513] (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket) [ 665.513] (II) LoadModule: extmod [ 665.513] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so [ 665.513] (II) Module extmod: vendor=X.Org Foundation [ 665.513]compiled for 1.9.4, module version = 1.0.0 [ 665.513]Module class: X.Org Server Extension [ 665.513]ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 4.0 [ 665.513] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER [ 665.513] (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension [ 665.513] (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA [ 665.513] (II) Loading extension DPMS [ 665.513] (II) Loading extension XVideo [ 665.513] (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation [ 665.513] (II) Loading extension X-Resource [ 665.513] (II) LoadModule: dbe [ 665.513] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libdbe.so [ 665.513] (II) Module dbe: vendor=X.Org Foundation [
Re: [gentoo-user] non-Twinview dual screen setup?
Gregory Fontenele wrote: want to leave this list but I can not, can someone erase me from this list? We can't unsubscribe you from the list. You have to do that yourself. Here is the link telling how to do that or you can check the email headers. It's in there too. http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] non-Twinview dual screen setup?
I've uswd xinerama and dwm on my thinkpad w510 and 42 tv without problems. I have no idea if kde supports xinerama still.
Re: [gentoo-user] non-Twinview dual screen setup?
On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:25:16 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I hooked up second monitor to my Nvidia GTX465 card yesterday and wanted to get dual screen running. Unfortunately, except for using Twinview which works fine, I've been unable to do it without Twinview. Twinview itself isn't bad, but I don't like how ever KDE decision I have to take (logout, settings, etc.) always starts spanned across my two monitors. That doesn't happen on my dual screen Intel system. You can change that in the Display Monitors section of KDE's System Settings. -- Neil Bothwick What Aussies lack in Humour they make up for in Beer! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] non-Twinview dual screen setup?
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 01:40:02AM +0200, Jacob Todd wrote: I've uswd xinerama and dwm on my thinkpad w510 and 42 tv without problems. I have no idea if kde supports xinerama stilL My thinkpad is often connected to an external monitor to create a single 2800x1050 space. Not using xinerama, just fluxbox and xrandr. xrandr --output VGA-0 --left-of LVDS seems to do it here. -- /\ /\ \ / ^ 'v-v' caveat utilitor
