[plug] Xinerama on Debian

[WolfBite]

with mandrake and gentoo
it ALWAYS seems to come down to the kernel whether it
works or not.
would bash my head with a kernel and could NEVER get
it to work.

along comes next one and works!!
dont ask me why
moral of story 
if in doesnt work with current kernel version,
either use nv, or regress to last working version, or
wait until next kernel (usually :)

The nvidia drivers always have worked for me, but can
spit the dummy on the odd point change.

dependecy hell? whats that? oh yes, back in the rpm
days :))

--- Randal Adamson <ranz at devdata.net> wrote:

> > 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 visit say so - I could be a little out of date on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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