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On 02/01/17 20:16, Daniel Campbell wrote: |
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> On 12/29/2016 09:46 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: |
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>> Hi all, |
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>> I have upgraded my old core2 to an i7 on a x58 gigabyte MB. Lots |
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>> faster .... but I am still using my older nvidia card (GF119 [GeForce GT |
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>> 610] Nouveau driver), storage and original gentoo install. |
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>> The problem is that I have two monitors - a 1920x1080 on DVI and a |
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>> 1280x1050 on vga. On boot up until logging into the xfce desktop, the |
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>> 1280x1050 resolution dominates. I have changed the boot through to end |
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>> of the initrd level using grub, and I can overide the X Windowes desktop |
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>> using xrandr. |
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>> Whats left after logging in is an invisible bounding box of 1280x1050 on |
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>> the desktop that I cant move icons out of, and the console on the |
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>> 1920x1080 monitor is a 1280x1050 window on the 1920x1080 sized screen :( |
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>> The strange thing is that this all worked perfectly on the old hardware |
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>> (basicly just a motherboard/memory/powersupply swap with the same |
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>> videocard and gentoo system) |
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>> Is anyone able to offer suggestions? |
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>> BillK |
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> I'm not sure if XFCE needs this, but do you have the 'xinerama' USE flag |
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> enabled? I know Fluxbox needs it to handle multi-monitor. That might be |
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> the missing piece of the puzzle. |
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Thanks, |
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its not set and euse says its mandatory for multiple monitors. |
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I'll do a rebuild tomorrow and see if it helps. |
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BillK |
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