Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-08 Thread Mick
On Monday 08 November 2010 11:43:00 Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Am 07.11.2010 21:19, schrieb Mick: > > The splash screen only covers part of the wide screen monitor on the > > right (i.e. it does not stretch across it's whole width). The > > smaller left hand side monitor shows the splash full size.

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-08 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 07.11.2010 21:19, schrieb Mick: > The splash screen only covers part of the wide screen monitor on the > right (i.e. it does not stretch across it's whole width). The > smaller left hand side monitor shows the splash full size. That is a quirk(?) in kernel mode setting (kms) because it can on

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-07 Thread Mick
On Saturday 06 November 2010 13:32:53 you wrote: > So, two questions remain: > > 1. Is there a way of setting up a framebuffer splash with a progress > bar and a background image in non-verbose mode when using the new KMS > kernel option? The solution to this problem was to uninstall the uvesa

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-06 Thread Mick
Thank you all for your pointers! It works (almost) with xorg-server-1.9.2. More questions below ... On 6 November 2010 09:57, YoYo Siska wrote: > You can read more about xrandr at http://www.x.org/wiki/Projects/XRandR > > For your last question: right now, yes. The drivers are changing... But

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-06 Thread YoYo Siska
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 09:38:07PM +, Mick wrote: > On Friday 05 November 2010 11:11:04 YoYo Siska wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 11:08:23PM +, Mick wrote: > > > On Thursday 04 November 2010 21:36:46 Florian Philipp wrote: > > > > Am 04.11.2010 21:17, schrieb Mick: > > > > [...] > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-05 Thread Mick
On Friday 05 November 2010 11:11:04 YoYo Siska wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 11:08:23PM +, Mick wrote: > > On Thursday 04 November 2010 21:36:46 Florian Philipp wrote: > > > Am 04.11.2010 21:17, schrieb Mick: > > > [...] > > > > > > > Then I ran xrandr again as Florian suggested and this is

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-05 Thread YoYo Siska
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 11:08:23PM +, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 04 November 2010 21:36:46 Florian Philipp wrote: > > Am 04.11.2010 21:17, schrieb Mick: > > [...] > > > > > Then I ran xrandr again as Florian suggested and this is what it shows: > > > > > > $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto <--th

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-04 Thread Mick
On Thursday 04 November 2010 21:36:46 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 04.11.2010 21:17, schrieb Mick: > [...] > > > Then I ran xrandr again as Florian suggested and this is what it shows: > > > > $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto <--this gives 1920x1080 > > $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --right-of-VGA-0 --ve

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-04 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 04.11.2010 21:17, schrieb Mick: [...] > > Then I ran xrandr again as Florian suggested and this is what it shows: > > $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto <--this gives 1920x1080 > $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --right-of-VGA-0 --verbose > xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 1920x1920 (desired size 3200

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-04 Thread Mick
On Thursday 04 November 2010 15:36:37 you wrote: > On 4 November 2010 09:24, YoYo Siska wrote: > > Just to make it a bit more clear: > > xrandr is used to setup the resolution and position of the monitors > > (you can make them clone each other, overlap, be alongside / above / > > below the other

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-04 Thread Mick
On 4 November 2010 09:24, YoYo Siska wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:43:25AM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Am 04.11.2010 08:38, schrieb Mick: >> > >> > PS.  Another thing I noticed with the WinXP setup is that the >> > application windows seem to be screen aware.  On the left monitor they >

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-04 Thread YoYo Siska
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:43:25AM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 04.11.2010 08:38, schrieb Mick: > > > > PS. Another thing I noticed with the WinXP setup is that the > > application windows seem to be screen aware. On the left monitor they > > will maximise only to cover fully the left hand

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 09:38 on Thursday 04 November 2010, Mick did opine thusly: > PS. Another thing I noticed with the WinXP setup is that the > application windows seem to be screen aware. On the left monitor they > will maximise only to cover fully the left hand screen not the righ

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-04 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 04.11.2010 08:38, schrieb Mick: > > PS. Another thing I noticed with the WinXP setup is that the > application windows seem to be screen aware. On the left monitor they > will maximise only to cover fully the left hand screen not the right > hand. The same happens when maximising an applicati

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-04 Thread Mick
Oops! This didn't make it to the list. Answer to Alan half way down and more info on card at the bottom. On 3 November 2010 22:20, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 03 November 2010 20:55:01 you wrote: >> Apparently, though unproven, at 22:51 on Wednesday 03 November 2010, Mick >> did >> >> opine thusl

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-04 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 03.11.2010 21:51, schrieb Mick: > Is there some invocation to allow me to set this up like > MSWindows does? I mean, in WinXP all desktop icons and toolbar stays > at the bottom of the DVI monitor. The VGA monitor on the left just > shows the desktop background, but has no toolbar or desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:51 on Wednesday 03 November 2010, Mick did opine thusly: > Hi All, > > I am trying to set up two monitors, but have next to no experience on > the subject. Last time I set up two monitors on a machine was years > ago and I recall using xinerama and xorg.conf.

[gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors

2010-11-03 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am trying to set up two monitors, but have next to no experience on the subject. Last time I set up two monitors on a machine was years ago and I recall using xinerama and xorg.conf. Now I do not use xorg.conf and I'm still running x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.7-r1 Upon booting up this ma