I haven't had any problems with dual screen setups and compiz, EXCEPT with some of the latest Dell computers using ATI video cards. I'm running Mandriva 2008 Spring, with nVidia video card. Naturally first set up the Dual screen, then enabled the compiz. All configurations were done without even looking at the xorg.conf file.
http://charlotteandpetri.net/images/misc/Dual_screen_with_compiz.png (Not optimized screen capture, about 1.1Mb file) Petri Brad Bendily wrote: > What is everyone using these days for multiple monitors? > I had 1 computer setup using Compiz, which is cool (first time i've > used it on my own computer). > I really like using it, much more than multiple desktops. But then i > got an extra monitor. So i thought, > great, i'll use the second monitor and Compiz at the same time. There > is a youtube video out there > with someone using multiple monitors and compiz, so somehow it can be > done. This lead me to a lot > of reading. Of course the gold standard for multi monitors is/was > Xinerama. But as of 9/2007 > Sourceforge says xinerama is deprecated. Bummer. So, what's next? X11 > says they're moving their > multi monitor support to xrandr. Anyone been using that? > Since compiz/multiple monitors don't seem to like each other all that > well, i thought at the very least > i'd like to rotate my second monitor 90degrees, but i can't do that > with Xinerama. I might can do it > with xrandr but the older distro i'm running has an old X11 and an old > intel driver. I can upgrade and > try some bleeding edge distro, i don't really care about that. > > I'm just curious how others are doing multiple monitors and/or compiz? > > http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Projects/XRandR > http://sourceforge.net/projects/xinerama/ > > > Also, i found some info about DMX (Distributed Multihead support) and > this lambdavision group set that up. > It looks very cool, but out of my price range! > http://www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/lambdavision/display.html > > more info about dmx can be found here: > http://dmx.sourceforge.net/ > http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/os-mltihed/index.html > > werd > bb > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
