On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Csillag Kristof <[email protected]> wrote: > Csillag Kristof wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> as a temporary workaround, I am trying to set up the following config: >> >> (from left to right) >> >> Monitor 1 - SyncMaster 214T (with broken DDC) - connected to RS690 >> Monitor 2 - SyncMaster 205BW - connected to FireMV 2200 PCI >> Monitor 3 - SyncMaster 152v - connected to FireMV 2200 PCI >> >> Without Xinerama, this works fine [...] >> If I enable Xinerama, the configuration of Monitor 3 is broken [...] >> I [...] put config data in xorg.conf [...] and it works find without xinerama > With some further research, I have determined that it was only luck > that the randr config was right without Xinerama: it turns out the X > ignores most of what I want to say, whether or not Xinerama is enabled. > > What I want to do is to specify the position of one monitor, relative > to the other, statically in xorg.conf. > > Like this: > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Section "Device" > Identifier "FireMV 2200" > Driver "radeon" > Option "Monitor-DVI-0" "205BW" > Option "Monitor-DVI-1" "152v" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "205BW" > Option "PreferredMode" "1680x1050" > EndSection > > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "152v" > Option "PreferredMode" "1024x768" > # Option "Above" "DVI-0" > # Option "Above" "205BW" > # Option "LeftOf" "DVI-0" > # Option "Left Of" "DVI-0" > # Option "LeftOf" "205BW" > # Option "Left Of" "205BW" > # Option "Position" "200 200" > EndSection > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The PreferredMode settings work; the commented-out position ones do not. > The default position is on the right, so I was testing with left and above. > But whatever I do, it goes to the right. > > I have found conflicting sources about the exact syntax (ie. LeftOf or > Left Of, > output name or monitor name), so I have tried a few configurations, but no > success. > > The virtual size is configured large enough to hold all possible modes. > > * * * > > So, how do I configure randr positions from xorg.conf, with current X & > radeon? > The run-time on-the-fly configuration works fine, but I can not use it > when using > Xinerama, so I need to do this from xorg.conf.
randr and xinerama don't mix. So you'll have to use xinerama for all heads of a multi-card setup rather than randr. Multi-card in general doesn't really work particularly reliably at the moment, so YMMV. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
