[gentoo-amd64] Re: SOLVED: Re: FGLRX: Option SwapScreens in xorg.conf not working

[Duncan]

Sebastian Beßler <sebastian@××××××××××××.de> posted
4A46197C.6020703@××××××××××××.de, excerpted below, on  Sat, 27 Jun 2009
15:07:08 +0200:

> Thats my problem with xrandr atm.
> I DON'T want to EXPAND my Desktop to anything when activating my TV. I
> need two clean seperated screens and that doesn't seem possible with
> xrandr. All it does is giving me this fucking stupid extended BigScreen.

AFAIK, the non-xinerama non-merged separate screens idea was one of the 
features that no longer works with RandR.

Your best bet would be posting a question about how to do it to the xorg 
list.  I expect you'll be told it's not doable at present, but at least 
that way they'll know there's demand for it out there.

Meanwhile, at least kaffeine (using the xine engine, so anything using 
xine should work similarly) still works with a double-click to full-
screen to a single monitor, here, using RandR 1.3, xorg-server-1.6.1.901-
r4, and the standard radeon driver from xf86-video-ati-6.12.2.  In fact, 
in the default Xv mode, I don't believe it could full-screen to more than 
that, since Xv uses the old video overlay technology, which works to only 
one monitor at a time.  (There's a newer textured-Xv using OpenGL 3D 
texture mapping instead of the old overlay tech, but I'm not sure if the 
Radeon driver handles it, and even if it does, the card won't, at the 
resolutions I'm running, because OpenGL is limited to 2048x2048, and I'm 
running stacked 1920x1200 for 1920x2400, thus limiting OpenGL on either 
the bottom monitor or shutting it off entirely, depending on the app.)  
But Xshm, tho not quite as efficient as Xv, can work on both monitors at 
the same time, and kaffeine still double-clicks to single-screen full-
screen, without disturbing what's on the other screen.  But that's with 
the desktop spread across both.  I don't have room here for a non-
computer TV screen, even if I wanted one, so I use the two for computer 
and video display both.

(I don't have an actual TV, the old 2.5" LCD I had from when they first 
came out with them in solid state back in the 90s, is now officially 
outdated, as the analog signal it used is now officially off the air, so 
I officially do not have a TV at all, and that's the way I want to keep 
it!  I watch video downloaded over the Internet or from DVDs, both using 
kaffeine, on my computer monitors.)

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