John Martin wrote: > Trygve Laugst?l wrote: >> >> Ok, that certainly helped, it's working now. I tried a few different >> options and played around a bit and it looks pretty nice. However, I >> had to disable Xinerama which is a bit of a PITA as I now have two >> desktops without the ability to move windows from one to another. Is >> there any way to get that feature back? > For a single NVIDIA board, it is better to use TwinView to span displays > instead of Xinerama.
Yeah, I tried that after writing the mail and it certainly was better. I > In your xorg.conf, disable Xinerama. A suggested xorg.conf: I just removed my xorg.conf, used the nvidia tool to enable TwinView. > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Layout0" > Screen 0 "Screen0" > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > EndSection > > Section "Files" > RgbPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/rgb" > FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" > FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" > FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" > FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" > FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/" > FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/sun/" > FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/F3bitmaps/" > EndSection > > Section "Module" > Load "dbe" > Load "extmod" > Load "type1" > Load "IA" > Load "bitstream" > Load "xtsol" > Load "glx" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > > # generated from default > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "auto" > Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > > # generated from default > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "keyboard" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > > # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "Unknown" > ModelName "SUN" > HorizSync 31.5 - 81.3 > VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0 > Option "DPMS" > EndSection > > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Videocard0" > Driver "nvidia" > Option "RenderAccel" "True" > Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True" > VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" > BoardName "Quadro FX 3500" > BusID "PCI:7:0:0" > Screen 0 > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Videocard0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > Option "TwinView" "True" > Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Left" > Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select" > Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "nvidia-auto-select" > EndSubSection > EndSection > > Section "Extensions" > Option "Composite" "Enable" > EndSection > > >> >> Another question or note. It seems like all the window decorations of >> my windows are gone. I also got a core file in ~ with this backtrace: >> > Which theme? Others have reported switching to nimbus works. Nimbus. > The gdb problem is because of the way libraries are built. A temporary > workaround > is to strip symbols from one of the libraries, but I cannot currently > find the email > discussing this. I will look later. It seems that it only failed until I enabled TwinView, and after that it has been working until I left the desktop. -- Trygve
