On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Ken Moffat wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 05:43:48PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>>> Ken Moffat wrote: >>>>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 04:22:39PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >>>> Good spot. I do not have CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV set. >> >>> LOL - I looked through my notes, which was why I suggested it : on >>> both of my old x86_64 machines I was trying out evdev in 2009, when >>> still building both i686 and x86_64 kernels, and had a similar >>> problem: EVDEV set on the 64-bit kernels but not on the 32-bit. >> >> I rebuilt the kernel with CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV and now evdev works fine. >> >> Now I'm having a problem with getting my two monitors working properly. >> It seems that anything I do, I get the same display reflected on both >> monitors instead of stretching across both. >> >> I'm currently using the nv driver. My xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log are at: >> >> http://pastebin.com/QxHNkn2U >> >> Any advice for the nv driver would be appreciated. I'll try the Nouveau >> driver next. > > I think at this point the Nouveau driver is probably the preferred > open nvidia driver. However, nv should still work unless you have > really new hardware. Here's a guide that's often sited for setting up > monitors in current Xorg: > > http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12
Also, this is a good guide to modern input device setup (the input maintainer Peter Hutterer is a fedora developer): http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Input_device_configuration -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
