[plug] Xinerama on Debian

Randal Adamson ranz at devdata.net
Sat Aug 20 20:58:35 WST 2005


> Weird, I'm running SuSE 9.3 with Kernel 2.6.11.4-21.8-default, and
> Nvidia drivers and have no problems (I have a PCI express GeForce 6600
> running 2x LG1710S lcds in Xinerama mode, well atleast thats what the
> config file says) Ok I had to hack the config file a bit to get it
> working, but I'm happy now! (3D is still weird though, I get a small
> window in the left screen and the app/game full screen in the right
> hand screen - the resolution remains at 1280x1024 with the app taking
> up its resolution in the middle)
> 

Yeah I got it running on SuSe 9.3 straight away (on the same PC - but got
so sick of not being able to easily install software - I am growing to
dislike RPM and YAST!). So perhaps it has something to do with my
Kernel-Image from Debian. Hmm

I am beginning to wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I'm
running AMD64 kernel and the debian apt package may be targeted to
386/686. It shouldn't tho - as this is a source module.

I've also tried downloading the run script from NVidia.com.

> > 
> > almost time to try ATI card :)
> 
> I hope you don't want 3D accelleration! My last graphics card for my
> previous system was a Radeon 9700 pro and I couldn't get any 3D out of
> it in Xinerama mode no matter what I tried.

I don't think 3D is supported yet in Xinerama. Well at least most places I
visit say so - I could be a little out of date on that.





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