Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-08 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 07.11.2010 21:19, schrieb Mick: The splash screen only covers part of the wide screen monitor on the right (i.e. it does not stretch across it's whole width). The smaller left hand side monitor shows the splash full size. That is a quirk(?) in kernel mode setting (kms) because it can only

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-08 Thread Mick
On Monday 08 November 2010 11:43:00 Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 07.11.2010 21:19, schrieb Mick: The splash screen only covers part of the wide screen monitor on the right (i.e. it does not stretch across it's whole width). The smaller left hand side monitor shows the splash full size.

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-07 Thread Mick
On Saturday 06 November 2010 13:32:53 you wrote: So, two questions remain: 1. Is there a way of setting up a framebuffer splash with a progress bar and a background image in non-verbose mode when using the new KMS kernel option? The solution to this problem was to uninstall the uvesa

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-06 Thread YoYo Siska
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 09:38:07PM +, Mick wrote: On Friday 05 November 2010 11:11:04 YoYo Siska wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 11:08:23PM +, Mick wrote: On Thursday 04 November 2010 21:36:46 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 04.11.2010 21:17, schrieb Mick: [...] Then I ran

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-06 Thread Mick
Thank you all for your pointers! It works (almost) with xorg-server-1.9.2. More questions below ... On 6 November 2010 09:57, YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk wrote: You can read more about xrandr at http://www.x.org/wiki/Projects/XRandR For your last question: right now, yes. The drivers are

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-05 Thread YoYo Siska
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 11:08:23PM +, Mick wrote: On Thursday 04 November 2010 21:36:46 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 04.11.2010 21:17, schrieb Mick: [...] Then I ran xrandr again as Florian suggested and this is what it shows: $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto --this gives

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-05 Thread Mick
On Friday 05 November 2010 11:11:04 YoYo Siska wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 11:08:23PM +, Mick wrote: On Thursday 04 November 2010 21:36:46 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 04.11.2010 21:17, schrieb Mick: [...] Then I ran xrandr again as Florian suggested and this is what it

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-04 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 03.11.2010 21:51, schrieb Mick: Is there some invocation to allow me to set this up like aheam! MSWindows does? I mean, in WinXP all desktop icons and toolbar stays at the bottom of the DVI monitor. The VGA monitor on the left just shows the desktop background, but has no toolbar or

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-04 Thread Mick
Oops! This didn't make it to the list. Answer to Alan half way down and more info on card at the bottom. On 3 November 2010 22:20, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 03 November 2010 20:55:01 you wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:51 on Wednesday 03 November 2010, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-04 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 04.11.2010 08:38, schrieb Mick: PS. Another thing I noticed with the WinXP setup is that the application windows seem to be screen aware. On the left monitor they will maximise only to cover fully the left hand screen not the right hand. The same happens when maximising an application

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 09:38 on Thursday 04 November 2010, Mick did opine thusly: PS. Another thing I noticed with the WinXP setup is that the application windows seem to be screen aware. On the left monitor they will maximise only to cover fully the left hand screen not the right

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-04 Thread YoYo Siska
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:43:25AM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 04.11.2010 08:38, schrieb Mick: PS. Another thing I noticed with the WinXP setup is that the application windows seem to be screen aware. On the left monitor they will maximise only to cover fully the left hand screen

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-04 Thread Mick
On 4 November 2010 09:24, YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:43:25AM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 04.11.2010 08:38, schrieb Mick: PS.  Another thing I noticed with the WinXP setup is that the application windows seem to be screen aware.  On the left monitor

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-04 Thread Mick
On Thursday 04 November 2010 15:36:37 you wrote: On 4 November 2010 09:24, YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk wrote: Just to make it a bit more clear: xrandr is used to setup the resolution and position of the monitors (you can make them clone each other, overlap, be alongside / above / below the

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-04 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 04.11.2010 21:17, schrieb Mick: [...] Then I ran xrandr again as Florian suggested and this is what it shows: $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto --this gives 1920x1080 $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --right-of-VGA-0 --verbose xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 1920x1920 (desired size 3200x1080)

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-04 Thread Mick
On Thursday 04 November 2010 21:36:46 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 04.11.2010 21:17, schrieb Mick: [...] Then I ran xrandr again as Florian suggested and this is what it shows: $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto --this gives 1920x1080 $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --right-of-VGA-0 --verbose

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:51 on Wednesday 03 November 2010, Mick did opine thusly: Hi All, I am trying to set up two monitors, but have next to no experience on the subject. Last time I set up two monitors on a machine was years ago and I recall using xinerama and xorg.conf. Now