On Monday 18 December 2006 09:33, Will Stephenson wrote: > On Sunday 17 December 2006 14:41, michael norman wrote: > > I have openSUSE 10.2 running in dualhead mode with an NVIDIA GeForce 6800 > > card and the latest NVIIDIA proprietary drivers. All of which works > > fine, except for 3D games. > > > > I also have a W2k partition which my son uses for his games. On W2k it > > is possible to run a game in 3D on one screen. When we try to run 3D > > games in SUSE using Cedega we cannot achieve the same. In other words > > what we get is the game spread across the two screens. > > > > I have looked at the NVIDIA server settings GUI but I can't find a > > setting there, nor in SAX. > > > > My question is, is what I want to do possible in Linux ? > > Yes but no. The situation is, you want a big virtual Xinerama screen for > the desktop, but a single screen when playing games. You can do this with > two separate Xorg.confs, but at present Xorg cannot be reconfigured while > it is running, so you would have to start X by hand with the alternate > config. I hear Xorg are working on adding dynamic configuration at the > moment, though. > > Alternatively the game could detect that it is running under Xinerama and > only draw to half of the virtual screen, but a Windows game running in > Xinerama is never going to do this for you. > > > I'd be interested if anybody on the list has achieved what I want to do, > > if so can you give me an example Xorg conf so I can modify mine ? > > This is clunky but it does what you want: Back up your xinerama xorg.conf, > then reconfigure using sax, disable dual-head and get it set up as you like > it for games, finally move the xorg.conf created by sax to xorg.conf.games > and restore the xinerama xorg.conf. So when you want to start a games > session, do startx -- -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf.games :1 and you have your > games session running in its own X server on display :1 (ctrl-alt-f8). > > Me, I like bzflag and sauerbraten running across both screens :). > > HTH > > Will
Will Thanks, pretty much confirms what I had suspected to be the case. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
