[plug] Xinerama on Debian

Richard Meyer meyerri at westnet.com.au
Sun Aug 21 20:34:05 WST 2005


On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 20:58 +0800, Randal Adamson 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 use apt  :-)

See http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/   APT for SUSE

Works quite nicely - I still use YAST for many things though ...

-- 
Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
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business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.
                -- Johnny Hart




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