Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?

2008-06-19 Thread Matt Parnell
Thank you so much -- I understand what i need o do now . but i dont have a xorg.conf file anywhere. The site say its: etc/X11/xorg.conf but its not. I found something on Wikipedia saying that the xorg.conf can be located differently on different OSs, so i did a file search and I couldn't

Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?

2008-06-19 Thread Calum Benson
On 17 Jun 2008, at 15:38, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Matt Parnell wrote: I;ve googled: Xrandr But i don't understand what i need to do. How do i use Xrandr? What do i need to do to make it work? If your card/driver supports it, you can run the /usr/X11/bin/xrandr command to use it, for

Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?

2008-06-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Matt Parnell wrote: Thank you so much -- I understand what i need o do now . but i dont have a xorg.conf file anywhere. The site say its: etc/X11/xorg.conf but its not. I found something on Wikipedia saying that the xorg.conf can be located differently on different OSs, so i did a file

Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?

2008-06-19 Thread Matt Parnell
Thank, I'll try that, but I don't know what i need to use put in this xorg.conf file. Anyone got a template which i can edit for my laptop? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?

2008-06-19 Thread Mike Meyer
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:01:28 PDT Matt Parnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you so much -- I understand what i need o do now . but i dont have a xorg.conf file anywhere. The site say its: etc/X11/xorg.conf but its not. I found something on Wikipedia saying that the xorg.conf can be

Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?

2008-06-17 Thread Matt Parnell
I;ve googled: Xrandr But i don't understand what i need to do. How do i use Xrandr? What do i need to do to make it work? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?

2008-06-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Matt Parnell wrote: I;ve googled: Xrandr But i don't understand what i need to do. How do i use Xrandr? What do i need to do to make it work? If your card/driver supports it, you can run the /usr/X11/bin/xrandr command to use it, for instance /usr/X11/bin/xrandr --auto. Some more examples are

Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?

2008-06-16 Thread Matt Harrison
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 05:35:23AM -0700, Matt Parnell wrote: Hey Guys, its the Noob again. lol As you all know I'm an XP guy, attapting to OpenSolairs, so far its been great, a couple hickups that you'veset me in the correct directions, but i still am loving it. A Think which I've got

Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?

2008-06-16 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Matt Parnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Guys, its the Noob again. lol As you all know I'm an XP guy, attapting to OpenSolairs, so far its been great, a couple hickups that you'veset me in the correct directions, but i still am loving it. A Think which

Re: [osol-discuss] Extended Desktop?

2008-06-16 Thread Mike Meyer
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:32:47 -0300 Ignacio Marambio Catán [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you need xinerama, check Work on Xinerama has stopped in favor of Xrandr. Xinerama's APIs have never been properly specified, and it's static - you can't add or remove screens or change their resolution on the