XRandR failing to expose two monitors on single RV280 as separate heads (was: dual-DPU XRandR almost working, DVI-0 stays blank)

2010-02-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Corbin Simpson mostawesomed...@gmail.com [2010.02.22.2354 +0100]: You'll have to Zaphod the head. Good luck. :3 I am not sure I understand. Zaphod is multiple Screen entries in the ServerLayout, right? Section ServerLayout Identifier Dual-Head Screen0

Re: XRandR failing to expose two monitors on single RV280 as separate heads (was: dual-DPU XRandR almost working, DVI-0 stays blank)

2010-02-23 Thread Alex Deucher
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:06 AM, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: also sprach Corbin Simpson mostawesomed...@gmail.com [2010.02.22.2354 +0100]: You'll have to Zaphod the head. Good luck. :3 I am not sure I understand. Zaphod is multiple Screen entries in the ServerLayout, right?

Re: XRandR failing to expose two monitors on single RV280 as separate heads (was: dual-DPU XRandR almost working, DVI-0 stays blank)

2010-02-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com [2010.02.23.0920 +0100]: This is curious, because when I connect my laptop (Intel GPU) to an external display, and I place LVDS --right-of VGA-1, then the window manager sees two heads, not one spread across both displays. You are mistaken.

XRandR failing to emulate Xinerama when Zaphod is in use (was: XRandR failing to expose two monitors on single RV280 as separate heads)

2010-02-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net [2010.02.23.0959 +0100]: Courtesy to my ASCII-art skills, this is what I currently see: Zaphod combining two Screens, and the second screen split across two displays with XRandR. Unfortunately, head 1 spreads across both displays 12. ←

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-02-23 Thread Ryan Daly
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 22:44 +0100, Tom Cowell wrote: Well, that's good news (unless your email has triggered the problem again!). Not yet. ;) Just out of curiosity, has another auto-generated .xmodmaprc appeared? No new .xmodmaprc file has appeared. I'm thinking that may have been something

Re: Problems Compiling from Git

2010-02-23 Thread Mike Lothian
On 19 February 2010 06:14, ace102 mgav...@juno.com wrote: What kind of hardware are building it for? If you're using nVidia(and their binary) you can use --disable-glx with the xserver .config/autogen.sh and you won't need to build libGL/mesa at all. There's some switches(.config --help) in

Re: Dual-head config broke with update to 1.4.2

2010-02-23 Thread Martin Cracauer
It just occurred to me: how do things work if you have a triple screen setup with two video cards (I do at home) and the driver for one or both cards doesn't do classic dual-screen, only randr? Can you have one xrandr/xinerama screen combining monitors across multiple cards? Martin --

Upgrading from 6.8.2

2010-02-23 Thread paul rogers
My system(s) is LFS based. I think it's time to upgrade. My 6.8.2 is monolithic, and I certainly see the advantage of not being required to download the whole thing just to get some updated parts, particularly as I'm on dial-up still. :( But I don't find a need to run SVN or CVS locally, and I