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Hi, for years I've been running a multiple monitor setup based on two |
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screens, on a few different machines. |
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Recently, I can not say exactly when but after system upgrades, I am |
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unable to open windows on the secondary monitor. |
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At first I thought this was related to ati-drivers as they cause lots of |
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issues anyway but today I got the same problem with another machine |
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running nvidia-drivers. |
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In the console (running X) all I see is: |
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xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :1 |
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However, by starting a terminal at :0 and address the other monitor as |
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:0.1 (which is the correct name) I can start a terminal and from there |
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start everything. But that is quite inconvenient. |
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I don't really know how to debug this as there is so many different |
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factors involved, so got any clue on how to solve this? In both cases I |
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upgraded the system in one go, so I cant pinpoint a specific version of |
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any package without downgrading one at a time. |
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Xorg is setup as following: |
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2 monitors, 2 cards (multihead), 2 screens and serverlayout setting the |
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layout of the monitors. |
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As window manager I am using fluxbox. |
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# emerge -pvq fluxbox xorg-x11 xorg-server nvidia-drivers |
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[ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.2.901 USE="ipv6 nptl udev xorg |
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-dmx -doc -kdrive -minimal -static-libs -tslib" |
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[ebuild R ] x11-wm/fluxbox-1.1.1-r2 USE="imlib nls slit toolbar |
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truetype -gnome -newmousefocus -vim-syntax -xinerama" |
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[ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4-r1 |
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[ebuild R ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.21 USE="(multilib) |
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-acpi -custom-cflags -gtk" |
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So, any ideas? |
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