On 02/01/17 20:16, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 12/29/2016 09:46 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> Hi all, >> I have upgraded my old core2 to an i7 on a x58 gigabyte MB. Lots >> faster .... but I am still using my older nvidia card (GF119 [GeForce GT >> 610] Nouveau driver), storage and original gentoo install. >> >> The problem is that I have two monitors - a 1920x1080 on DVI and a >> 1280x1050 on vga. On boot up until logging into the xfce desktop, the >> 1280x1050 resolution dominates. I have changed the boot through to end >> of the initrd level using grub, and I can overide the X Windowes desktop >> using xrandr. >> >> Whats left after logging in is an invisible bounding box of 1280x1050 on >> the desktop that I cant move icons out of, and the console on the >> 1920x1080 monitor is a 1280x1050 window on the 1920x1080 sized screen :( >> >> The strange thing is that this all worked perfectly on the old hardware >> (basicly just a motherboard/memory/powersupply swap with the same >> videocard and gentoo system) >> >> Is anyone able to offer suggestions? >> >> BillK >> >> > I'm not sure if XFCE needs this, but do you have the 'xinerama' USE flag > enabled? I know Fluxbox needs it to handle multi-monitor. That might be > the missing piece of the puzzle. >
Thanks, its not set and euse says its mandatory for multiple monitors. I'll do a rebuild tomorrow and see if it helps. BillK
