Trygve Laugst?l wrote:
>
> Ok, that certainly helped, it's working now. I tried a few different
> options and played around a bit and it looks pretty nice. However, I
> had to disable Xinerama which is a bit of a PITA as I now have two
> desktops without the ability to move windows from one to another. Is
> there any way to get that feature back?
For a single NVIDIA board, it is better to use TwinView to span displays
instead of Xinerama.
In your xorg.conf, disable Xinerama. A suggested xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/sun/"
FontPath "/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/F3bitmaps/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "IA"
Load "bitstream"
Load "xtsol"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "SUN"
HorizSync 31.5 - 81.3
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "Quadro FX 3500"
BusID "PCI:7:0:0"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "True"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Left"
Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select, nvidia-auto-select"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "nvidia-auto-select"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
>
> Another question or note. It seems like all the window decorations of
> my windows are gone. I also got a core file in ~ with this backtrace:
>
Which theme? Others have reported switching to nimbus works.
The gdb problem is because of the way libraries are built. A temporary
workaround
is to strip symbols from one of the libraries, but I cannot currently
find the email
discussing this. I will look later.
