RE: [expert] dual displays - How do I get xinerama working?
I use xinerama, and have still to get full screen display in Mandrake 8.0 b2. I can get full screen video in RH 7.1b though. I upgraded to the latest xawtv with still no sucess in Mandrake. Maybe I missed something in Mandrake configuration though. Brian -Original Message- From: Hoyt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 3:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] dual displays - How do I get xinerama working? - Original Message - From: "Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 10:04 AM Subject: RE: [expert] dual displays Well I had a chance to use the Matrox drivers this weekend. Whil I was able to get two displays running with KDE 2.1, I really wasn't able to use the second to any real advantage. Windows kept opening too far down, and I couldn't move them. I think it is a KDE issue. I recall read- ing that KDE is "not" multi-monitor compliant. Thanks for the help, and info I have been able to get two separate displays working in KDE2, xfce, GNOME/Elightenment and blackbox, but I can't get xinerama enabled for a single wide screen. I'm using 8.0beta2, a Voodoo3 AGP card and a Matrox PCI card. I am using Option "xinerama" "on" in /etc/XF86Config-4 to enable xinerama (that worked when I had 7.2 installed with the same hardware). Hoyt Any suggestions?
RE: [expert] dual displays
Well I had a chance to use the Matrox drivers this weekend. Whil I was able to get two displays running with KDE 2.1, I really wasn't able to use the second to any real advantage. Windows kept opening too far down, and I couldn't move them. I think it is a KDE issue. I recall read- ing that KDE is "not" multi-monitor compliant. Thanks for the help, and info Brian -Original Message- From: Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 3:05 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] dual displays I will try it out this weekend. Thanks, Brian -Original Message- From: Civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 1:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] dual displays On Friday 23 March 2001 19:15, you wrote: Are you using the Matrox provided drivers (mga_drv.o and hal_drv.o) or the kernel provided drivers. Mandrake 8.0b2 was supposed to fix G450 issues. I cant make it work at all as of last night with Kernel provided modules, or XF86 stock drivers. KDE 2.1 came up for me with RH 7.1b but I could not access the second display at all. Oh well there is the weekend to fight it I guess. Brian Yes the XFree driver is broken and the closed-source works (both by the same author, incidentally). Civileme QA/Software testing -Original Message- From: Dan Riley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] dual displays Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: I have a Matrox G450. I have heard (read) that KDE is not capable of doing dual monitor display. Their website names Windowmaker for this use. Is there another window manager that supports dual display? I just simply run one large dual headed desktop across two monitors with a G450 using xinerama. KDE doesn't know the difference and behaves normally. The other window managers, at least the ones shipped with LM 7.1 work nicely as well. Dan
RE: [expert] dual displays
Hi, Did you have any problems with the drivers for the matrox dual head? I'm currently looking into swapping my matrox G450 into my Linux machine for the multiple monitor support, and would like to gather as much information as possible. Thanks Well I had a chance to use the Matrox drivers this weekend. Whil I was able to get two displays running with KDE 2.1, I really wasn't able to use the second to any real advantage. Windows kept opening too far down, and I couldn't move them. I think it is a KDE issue. I recall read- ing that KDE is "not" multi-monitor compliant. Thanks for the help, and info Brian -Original Message- From: Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 3:05 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] dual displays I will try it out this weekend. Thanks, Brian -Original Message- From: Civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 1:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] dual displays On Friday 23 March 2001 19:15, you wrote: Are you using the Matrox provided drivers (mga_drv.o and hal_drv.o) or the kernel provided drivers. Mandrake 8.0b2 was supposed to fix G450 issues. I cant make it work at all as of last night with Kernel provided modules, or XF86 stock drivers. KDE 2.1 came up for me with RH 7.1b but I could not access the second display at all. Oh well there is the weekend to fight it I guess. Brian Yes the XFree driver is broken and the closed-source works (both by the same author, incidentally). Civileme QA/Software testing -Original Message- From: Dan Riley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] dual displays Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: I have a Matrox G450. I have heard (read) that KDE is not capable of doing dual monitor display. Their website names Windowmaker for this use. Is there another window manager that supports dual display? I just simply run one large dual headed desktop across two monitors with a G450 using xinerama. KDE doesn't know the difference and behaves normally. The other window managers, at least the ones shipped with LM 7.1 work nicely as well. Dan
Re: [expert] dual displays - How do I get xinerama working?
- Original Message - From: "Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 10:04 AM Subject: RE: [expert] dual displays Well I had a chance to use the Matrox drivers this weekend. Whil I was able to get two displays running with KDE 2.1, I really wasn't able to use the second to any real advantage. Windows kept opening too far down, and I couldn't move them. I think it is a KDE issue. I recall read- ing that KDE is "not" multi-monitor compliant. Thanks for the help, and info I have been able to get two separate displays working in KDE2, xfce, GNOME/Elightenment and blackbox, but I can't get xinerama enabled for a single wide screen. I'm using 8.0beta2, a Voodoo3 AGP card and a Matrox PCI card. I am using Option "xinerama" "on" in /etc/XF86Config-4 to enable xinerama (that worked when I had 7.2 installed with the same hardware). Hoyt Any suggestions?
RE: [expert] dual displays
For the most part, the drivers are drop in replacements for standard XF86 drivers. I am going to try Windowmaker, which is dual monitor compliant, then we'll see. So far I only have the stated problems You need to edit a couple of files in XF86 dir. The instructions are pretty good from Matrox too. Brian -Original Message- From: Lyric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 1:24 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] dual displays Hi, Did you have any problems with the drivers for the matrox dual head? I'm currently looking into swapping my matrox G450 into my Linux machine for the multiple monitor support, and would like to gather as much information as possible. Thanks Well I had a chance to use the Matrox drivers this weekend. Whil I was able to get two displays running with KDE 2.1, I really wasn't able to use the second to any real advantage. Windows kept opening too far down, and I couldn't move them. I think it is a KDE issue. I recall read- ing that KDE is not multi-monitor compliant. Thanks for the help, and info Brian -Original Message- From: Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 3:05 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] dual displays I will try it out this weekend. Thanks, Brian -Original Message- From: Civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 1:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] dual displays On Friday 23 March 2001 19:15, you wrote: Are you using the Matrox provided drivers (mga_drv.o and hal_drv.o) or the kernel provided drivers. Mandrake 8.0b2 was supposed to fix G450 issues. I cant make it work at all as of last night with Kernel provided modules, or XF86 stock drivers. KDE 2.1 came up for me with RH 7.1b but I could not access the second display at all. Oh well there is the weekend to fight it I guess. Brian Yes the XFree driver is broken and the closed-source works (both by the same author, incidentally). Civileme QA/Software testing -Original Message- From: Dan Riley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] dual displays Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: I have a Matrox G450. I have heard (read) that KDE is not capable of doing dual monitor display. Their website names Windowmaker for this use. Is there another window manager that supports dual display? I just simply run one large dual headed desktop across two monitors with a G450 using xinerama. KDE doesn't know the difference and behaves normally. The other window managers, at least the ones shipped with LM 7.1 work nicely as well. Dan
Re: [expert] dual displays
Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: I have a Matrox G450. I have heard (read) that KDE is not capable of doing dual monitor display. Their website names Windowmaker for this use. Is there another window manager that supports dual display? I just simply run one large dual headed desktop across two monitors with a G450 using xinerama. KDE doesn't know the difference and behaves normally. The other window managers, at least the ones shipped with LM 7.1 work nicely as well. Dan
RE: [expert] dual displays
Are you using the Matrox provided drivers (mga_drv.o and hal_drv.o) or the kernel provided drivers. Mandrake 8.0b2 was supposed to fix G450 issues. I cant make it work at all as of last night with Kernel provided modules, or XF86 stock drivers. KDE 2.1 came up for me with RH 7.1b but I could not access the second display at all. Oh well there is the weekend to fight it I guess. Brian -Original Message- From: Dan Riley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] dual displays Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: I have a Matrox G450. I have heard (read) that KDE is not capable of doing dual monitor display. Their website names Windowmaker for this use. Is there another window manager that supports dual display? I just simply run one large dual headed desktop across two monitors with a G450 using xinerama. KDE doesn't know the difference and behaves normally. The other window managers, at least the ones shipped with LM 7.1 work nicely as well. Dan
Re: [expert] dual displays
On Friday 23 March 2001 19:15, you wrote: Are you using the Matrox provided drivers (mga_drv.o and hal_drv.o) or the kernel provided drivers. Mandrake 8.0b2 was supposed to fix G450 issues. I cant make it work at all as of last night with Kernel provided modules, or XF86 stock drivers. KDE 2.1 came up for me with RH 7.1b but I could not access the second display at all. Oh well there is the weekend to fight it I guess. Brian Yes the XFree driver is broken and the closed-source works (both by the same author, incidentally). Civileme QA/Software testing -Original Message- From: Dan Riley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] dual displays Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: I have a Matrox G450. I have heard (read) that KDE is not capable of doing dual monitor display. Their website names Windowmaker for this use. Is there another window manager that supports dual display? I just simply run one large dual headed desktop across two monitors with a G450 using xinerama. KDE doesn't know the difference and behaves normally. The other window managers, at least the ones shipped with LM 7.1 work nicely as well. Dan
RE: [expert] dual displays
I will try it out this weekend. Thanks, Brian -Original Message- From: Civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 1:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] dual displays On Friday 23 March 2001 19:15, you wrote: Are you using the Matrox provided drivers (mga_drv.o and hal_drv.o) or the kernel provided drivers. Mandrake 8.0b2 was supposed to fix G450 issues. I cant make it work at all as of last night with Kernel provided modules, or XF86 stock drivers. KDE 2.1 came up for me with RH 7.1b but I could not access the second display at all. Oh well there is the weekend to fight it I guess. Brian Yes the XFree driver is broken and the closed-source works (both by the same author, incidentally). Civileme QA/Software testing -Original Message- From: Dan Riley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] dual displays Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: I have a Matrox G450. I have heard (read) that KDE is not capable of doing dual monitor display. Their website names Windowmaker for this use. Is there another window manager that supports dual display? I just simply run one large dual headed desktop across two monitors with a G450 using xinerama. KDE doesn't know the difference and behaves normally. The other window managers, at least the ones shipped with LM 7.1 work nicely as well. Dan
