Re: Mixed dual-monitor setup: too weird?
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 02:06:54PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Reid Priedhorsky wrote: Hi folks, I'm contemplating a dual-monitor setup consisting of a 1280x1024 LCD and a 1024x768 LCD. There's a couple of sources of oddity here: the difference in resolution and the different display technologies. Has anyone tried a setup like this? Is it OK, or too weird to use? I'm currently running on a 17 CRT and a 15 CRT; one hanging off the integrated AGP device and the other hanging off a PCI card; one running at 1152x864, the other running at 800x600. Not what I'd prefer, but it works just fine. Hi Kent, I'd love to see your x info and conf files. I tried a few times but got only 1 card to work and the other did nothing. TIA! Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System| go to counter.li.org and | | `-http://www.debian.org/ |be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org | signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Mixed dual-monitor setup: too weird?
Kevin Mark wrote: On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 02:06:54PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Reid Priedhorsky wrote: Hi folks, I'm contemplating a dual-monitor setup consisting of a 1280x1024 LCD and a 1024x768 LCD. There's a couple of sources of oddity here: the difference in resolution and the different display technologies. Has anyone tried a setup like this? Is it OK, or too weird to use? I'm currently running on a 17 CRT and a 15 CRT; one hanging off the integrated AGP device and the other hanging off a PCI card; one running at 1152x864, the other running at 800x600. Not what I'd prefer, but it works just fine. Hi Kent, I'd love to see your x info and conf files. I tried a few times but got only 1 card to work and the other did nothing. TIA! Kev # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X Window System server configuration file) # # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using # values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page. # (Type man XF86Config-4 at the shell prompt.) # # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xfree86 package upgrades *only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xfree86 # package. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following commands as root: # # cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom # md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Section Files FontPathunix/:7100# local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1 FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath/usr/share/fonts/X11/CID FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi EndSection Section Module Loadbitmap Loaddbe Loadddc Loaddri Loadextmod Loadfreetype Loadglx Loadint10 Loadrecord Loadtype1 Loadvbe EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver keyboard Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device/dev/gpmdata Option Protocol IntelliMouse Option Emulate3Buttons true Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Device Identifier Diamond Stealth 64 S3 Driver s3virge BusID PCI:0:9:0 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Compudata HorizSync 28-49 VertRefresh 43-72 Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier Right Screen Device Diamond Stealth 64 S3 Monitor CompuData DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Depth 1 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 4 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 8 Modes 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 15 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Rage 128 Driver ati BusID PCI:01:0:0 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier VX720 HorizSync 30-92 VertRefresh 50-85 Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen
Re: Mixed dual-monitor setup: too weird?
On Monday 12 June 2006 04:32, Kevin Mark wrote: Hi Kent, I'd love to see your x info and conf files. I tried a few times but got only 1 card to work and the other did nothing. TIA! Kev When I was running AGP PCI cards for the dual head I had to have the BIOS set to boot off the PCI card otherwise it would not be initialized properly, perhaps the same was happening to you. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpFX3AfTjP5W.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mixed dual-monitor setup: too weird?
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:20:08 +0200, Philippe De Ryck wrote: On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 13:23 -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: Hi folks, I'm contemplating a dual-monitor setup consisting of a 1280x1024 LCD and a 1024x768 LCD. There's a couple of sources of oddity here: the difference ^^^ doh! this should be CRT in resolution and the different display technologies. Why would that be weird? Of course, you won't have two identical screens or a symmetric setup, but that works just fine. I am talking about two separate screens in the config, not xinerama or other stuff. That's how I use it and how I like it. Well, it seems I made an error: the smaller screen would be a CRT, not an LCD. :/ I was thinking of stuff like text smoothing, which is best done differently on the two types of screens, but I've not seen any setups where one screen uses subpixel rendering and the other doesn't -- especially using Xinerama, which is important. I need to be able to move windows from screen to screen. Thanks, Reid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mixed dual-monitor setup: too weird?
* Reid Priedhorsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-12 02:28]: On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:20:08 +0200, Philippe De Ryck wrote: On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 13:23 -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: Hi folks, I'm contemplating a dual-monitor setup consisting of a 1280x1024 LCD and a 1024x768 LCD. There's a couple of sources of oddity here: the difference ^^^ doh! this should be CRT in resolution and the different display technologies. Why would that be weird? Of course, you won't have two identical screens or a symmetric setup, but that works just fine. I am talking about two separate screens in the config, not xinerama or other stuff. That's how I use it and how I like it. Well, it seems I made an error: the smaller screen would be a CRT, not an LCD. :/ I was thinking of stuff like text smoothing, which is best done differently on the two types of screens, but I've not seen any setups where one screen uses subpixel rendering and the other doesn't -- especially using Xinerama, which is important. I need to be able to move windows from screen to screen. I'm not sure if it's of much help, but I have a dual-monitor setup w/ my laptop having a CRT connected through a KVM as a second screen. I'm just mirroring the laptop's screen to the CRT, but everything works fine. I'd imagine merging would work OK too. - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://obfusk.net ~ Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. ~ -- R. Kulawiec ~ vim: set ft=mail tw=70 sw=2 sts=2 et: pgpavhMvwZSOg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mixed dual-monitor setup: too weird?
Reid Priedhorsky wrote: Hi folks, I'm contemplating a dual-monitor setup consisting of a 1280x1024 LCD and a 1024x768 LCD. There's a couple of sources of oddity here: the difference in resolution and the different display technologies. Has anyone tried a setup like this? Is it OK, or too weird to use? I'm currently running on a 17 CRT and a 15 CRT; one hanging off the integrated AGP device and the other hanging off a PCI card; one running at 1152x864, the other running at 800x600. Not what I'd prefer, but it works just fine. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mixed dual-monitor setup: too weird?
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 13:23 -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: Hi folks, I'm contemplating a dual-monitor setup consisting of a 1280x1024 LCD and a 1024x768 LCD. There's a couple of sources of oddity here: the difference in resolution and the different display technologies. Has anyone tried a setup like this? Is it OK, or too weird to use? Thanks, Reid Why would that be weird? Of course, you won't have two identical screens or a symmetric setup, but that works just fine. I am talking about two separate screens in the config, not xinerama or other stuff. That's how I use it and how I like it. Good luck! Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
