Well. At least I know it'll work. I might need to upgrade the OS then. Plus this crappy dell i have has the onboard intel card. I assume it's still possible, but we'll see.
Is this with xrandr or xinerama? b On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Petri Laihonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- Have Mercy & Say Yeah _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
