Mark Vojkovich writes: :: On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Dean S. Messing wrote: :: > :: > Xperts, :: > :: > I'm trying to get xinerama to work on my GeForce-4 card :: > to which is connected a CRT and a Digital Flat Panel (via the DVI port). :: > :: > When I `startx' the window manager (KDE) starts on the CRT but :: > nothing happens on the DVI device. Note that I have gotten :: > TwinView to work correctly. But I wanted to play with "pure" :: > Xinerama. What am I doing wrong? :: :: NVIDIA's drivers do not support separate X-screens on a single :: card. NVIDIA's drivers use TwinView to display two monitors :: on a single card, not Xinerama. NVIDIA's drivers do advertise :: the Xinerama protocol so that Xinerama-aware window managers :: can get individual head info when in TwinView. From the client's :: point of view there is no difference between Xinerama info returned :: from NVIDIA's TwinView driver and from a driver that was really :: using Xinerama. :: :: Mark.
Thanks Mark. I'm a little surprised at this since most people buying a "dual-head" card would expect native xinerama to work, especially given the advanced binary drivers from the manufacturer. Be that as it may, I will accept that I'm getting "everything" transmitted to KDE that I would if I were running "pure" xinerama. But this raises a question: From my reading, KDE 2.2.2 (and greater) is supposed to be "xinerama-aware" so that, e.g., horizontally expanding a window doesn't splay it across both screens, starting an app doesn't put it in the middle of the virtual desktop (and hence across the divide between screen), &c. Yet I'm seeing all these behaviours with my system. Can anyone advise me on how to debug, or overcome, this. It really is incorrect behaviour and makes my Microsoft colleagues laugh when they hear me cursing under my breath. :-) Dean _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
