On Tuesday 18 July 2006 06:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dudes, > > After much wailing and gnashing of teeth I managed to get a new > dual-head Radeon video card doing dual-head with the fglrx drivers. I > used xinerama since I couldn't work out how to get the ATI BigScreen > thing working (I think at some point I made that work, but the only > application that could use the second head was the login screen of gdm; > I couldn't use it once gnome-session started). > > But now when I maximise windows, they end up being 2560 pixels wide (ie, > spanning both screens), when what I really want is to maximise to only > one screen. Currently I get 'goo' and 'gle' one two screens. > > What's the magical incantation I'm missing? I'll happily send my > xorg.conf file if it will help, but don't want to prematurely spam the > list with it. I'm not that attached to the fglrx drivers, so if > switching to one of the plethora other ATI drivers will solve my > problem, I'm quite amenable to that. > > Ideally I'd like to get 3D acceleration working too, but I'll let that > be for now.
this is not what you want to hear ... I have a few ATI cards lying around, even cheapie NVIDIA (FX5200, gigabyte, fanless. $60) WORK so I've migrated. TwinView works as expected. She's happy :-) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
