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I have been playing with my X-configuration this weekend and I can not really |
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get it to work the way I like. My desktop box has two Nvidia cards installed |
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with one monitor connected to each. On to of that I am running KDE (v 4.3.5 at |
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the moment). |
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# lspci | grep VGA |
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400 GS] |
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(rev a1) |
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05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400 GS] |
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(rev a1) |
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If I have "Option Xinerama on" in the ServerLayout section in xorg.conf then |
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KDE uses both monitors (in Xinerama "mode") but I can not use any "Desktop |
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effects" as "Compositing is not supported". Also a lot of GUI programs reports |
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"Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0"." |
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If I set "Option Xinerama off" in xorg.conf then KDE only "runs" on one of the |
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monitors and the "Desktop effects" works great. And the other GUI's does not |
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give me that Xlkib error message. But now the only way to start a GUI on the |
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second Monitor is to prefix it with DISPLAY=:0.1 or use --display :0.1. |
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Does someone have any suggestion how I can "get the best of both worlds"? |
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i.e. Compositing && KDE using both monitors. |
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Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> |
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