XFree86 4.0, Enlightenment 16.4, and Xinerama...

[Michael Malinak]

Would you mind sending (or posting to the list) your XF86Config file.. I've yet
to be able to drag between windows.  Also any luck with this running under
kernal 2.3.99pre*?
When I compiled the kernel XFree 4.0 couln't find my 2nd video card even though
it could under 2.2.14.
Anyone else have this problem?
Michael


Edward Glowacki wrote:

> Holy cow it works!!!!!!!!!! mwhhahahahahaha!!!!!  They *were* actually
> working as separate x screens, :0.0 and :0.1, which explains the 2 copies
> of enlightenment. Turns out I forgot an
>
> Option "Xinerama"
>
> in my XF86Config file, which I didn't think I needed because the logs said
> the module was loaded and I had tried starting X with "startx +xinerama".
> Mutter, looks much better now...
>
> Only problem now is screen resolution and video card memory.  My primary
> monitor is running at insane resolution at 24bpp, so the pixels are a LOT
> smaller than those of the secondary monitor which is only attached to a
> 4mb card (giving 1152x864x24bpp, can't quite get it up to 1280x1024 which
> is the monitor's max).  Moving windows from primary to secondary monitor
> increases their real-life size by about 60%. =)
>
> Hmm... now to try and find another 4mb card and a monitor around here
> somewhere... ;)
>
> --
> Edward Glowacki                 glowack2@msu.edu
> Network Services
> Michigan State University
>
> On 20 Apr 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
> > Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:
> >
> > > Heheh, one step ahead of ya there, just got done doing
> > > that... ;) Now the cursor works fine, just can't seem to move
> > > windows between heads.
> >
> > Is that because they're separate X `screens'?  i.e., one of them
> > might be :0.0 and the other one :0.1.  I don't know if there's
> > any way to deal with that other than running something like x2x.
> >
> > You *are* familiar with x2x, right?  If not here's some info:
> >
> > blp:~(0)$ apt-cache show x2x
> > Package: x2x
> > Version: 1.27-5
> > Priority: optional
> > Section: x11
> > Maintainer: Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org>
> > Depends: libc6, xlib6g (>= 3.3-5)
> > Architecture: i386
> > Filename: dists/stable/main/binary-i386/x11/x2x_1.27-5.deb
> > Size: 17252
> > MD5sum: 886ebdc533c991c2c5a9ba82f5fd1754
> > Description: Link two X displays together, simulating a multiheaded display
> >  x2x joins a pair of X displays together, as if they were a single
> >  multiheaded display.  The pointer can be warped between displays,
> >  or, depending on how you start x2x, can slide from one display to the
> >  other when it runs off the edge of the screen.  Keyboard focus also
> >  moves between displays in the way you'd expect, and the X selection
> >  propagates around.  At least one of the displays involved (specifically,
> >  the one being controlled remotely) must support the XTEST extension.
> >  (The servers shipped by Debian support this.)
> >  .
> >  x2x is useful when you have two displays on the same desk, as you can use
> >  a single keyboard and mouse to control both.  If you want to propagate
> >  your selections between displays which are not sharing a desk, you might
> >  be more interested in the package propsel.  Propsel does not link the
> >  displays' keyboard and mouse, which would be confusing in some cases,
> >  and can propagate between up to 8 displays, whereas x2x can handle only
> >  two at a time.
> > installed-size: 39
> >
> > > All in all, this multiheaded X stuff is really cool... =)  Time to
> > > scrounge up another 4-8mb PCI card and see if I can do tri-headed!! ;)
> >
> > For some reason I misread that as "4-8 port PCI [video] hub" and I was
> > trying to fit out how such a beast would work.
> >
>
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