On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 10:58, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > Don't use xinerama.
To expand on Jeff's ever so helpful response... <rant> I don't use xinerama anymore, since the good ximian folks seem utterly uninterested in understanding why evo is the only application on the planet (at least, the only one I've ever seen) that won't play nice with xinerama (http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20473). And although xinerama is very cool software, and has some distinct advantages, and I really like it and wish I could use it, evo is even cooler software, and I want evo even more than I want xinerama. </rant> I feel much better now... Anyway, it is possible to get a single logical screen on the G450 without xinerama. The mga xfree86 driver has a "MergedFB" option that you can set which makes the two heads look like one big framebuffer to xfree86. It's not as nice as xinerama, since nobody but the driver knows that you have two separate screens (so for example, your window manager can't be smart about window placement or zooming, etc...), but it gets the job done. The easiest way to set up the G450 this way is to simply use Matrox's "PowerDesk" GUI tool to do it. If you want to manually edit the XF86Config-4 file, you'll need to create a single screen, and them make sure the "Monitor2Position", "MergedFB", "MetaModes", "Monitor2HSync", and "Monitor2VRefresh" options are set appropriately for the screen, then you'll also want a "Display" subsection. Here's my "Screen" section as an example (I'm running my two heads at different resolutions, don't let that mess you up). Section "Screen" Identifier "Display Merged" Device "G450" Monitor "Display Merged" DefaultDepth 16 Option "Monitor2Position" "RightOf" Option "MergedFB" Option "MetaModes" "1600x1024-1280x1024 " Option "Monitor2HSync" "30.0-96.0 " Option "Monitor2VRefresh" "50.0-160.0 " SubSection "Display" Virtual 2880 1024 Depth 16 Modes "1600x1024" "1280x1024" EndSubSection EndSection Cheers! -- Brett Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - i n v e n t - _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
