[plug] Xinerama on Debian

Quintin Lette qlette at gmail.com
Sun Aug 21 11:33:30 WST 2005


> 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
> 

hehe, I got sick of dependancy issues with Debian when I install
software from other repositories that end up going down or don't keep
up to date, so I moved back to Suse for desktop systems. (I still run
debian on any Linux servers, but I'm moving more and more of them to
Solaris 10 on sparc)

> 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.

could be!, I thought Nvidia drivers were binary (well there's a binary
part anyway)


> > > 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 visit say so - I could be a little out of date on that.
> 
I've read success stories, but hey how much of the net can you trust?
It works "okish" on my Nvidia card



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