Dual Monitor Question

jaykup · 04-12-2006, 02:19 PM

I have Dual Monitors working on a Geforce4 Ti 4600, using 2 different sized monitors, one running 1600x1200 and the other running 1280x1024. It works ok, but it is setup where X is spread across 2 monitors like one giant desktop, and KDE is able to tell the difference between the two screens, to a point.

Is there a way to do this more like you would in windows, with the Dual View? Where X would see each monitor as separate and load a window according to what you would tell it to, and you could still drag a window from one monitor to another?

This is what my Xorg looks like.

Code:

Section "Module"

    SubSection  "extmod"
    EndSubSection
    Load        "type1"
    Load        "freetype"
    Load       "glx"
    Load       "dri"

EndSection


Section "Files"

    RgbPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
    FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"

EndSection


Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier	"Keyboard1"
    Driver	"kbd"
    Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
    Option "XkbRules"	"xorg"
    Option "XkbModel"	"pc104"
    Option "XkbLayout"	"us"

EndSection



Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier	"Mouse1"
    Driver	"mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "IMPS/2"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons"

EndSection



Section "Monitor"

    Identifier  "My Monitor"
    HorizSync   40 - 110
    VertRefresh 50-160

EndSection



Section "Device"

    Identifier	"Standard VGA"
    VendorName	"Unknown"
    BoardName	"Unknown"
    Driver     "vga"

EndSection


Section "Device"

    Identifier  "NVIDIA"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    Option      "RenderAccel" "true"

EndSection


Section "Screen"

 Identifier "Screen0"
 Device "NVIDIA"
 Monitor "My Monitor"
 DefaultDepth 24
 Option "NvAGP" "1" 
 Option "TwinView" "true"
# Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30.0-100.0"
# Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "40.0-110.0"
 Option "MetaModes" "1600x1200, 1280x1024; 1280x1024, 1280x1024;"
 Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
 Option "Xinerama" "on"

 Subsection "Display"
 Depth 24
 Modes "1280x1024"
 ViewPort 0 0
 EndSubsection

EndSection


Section "ServerLayout"

    Identifier  "Simple Layout"
    Screen "Screen0"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection


Section "DRI"

    Mode 0666

EndSection

acid_kewpie · 04-12-2006, 04:10 PM

i think you'd just trun xinerama off there, but i always foudn that metajunk configuration to be uglay and unpleasent for the kind of reasons your seeing now. i always prefer to, when possible, define the card as two totally seperate devices, one on ehach output, and then join them only at the serverlayout level. i'd try just commenting out the xinerama option there first though.