From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PDkLw-0005yu-Av for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:54:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D84F7E07A5; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 20:54:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A8CDE07A5 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 20:54:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyb6 with SMTP id 6so642850eyb.40 for ; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:54:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=+GlW2SzIiMSAnjXQHJEfuvN7CgZcKNuBsPzTm4zr81g=; b=dJNWwHgGNFV30cNGdJciGfibKhKhBd0U9llkLodEUKHpFpql6EN0D8bG3B8ADCaQpV fXnH5zMWCf68+ogbLndh7Kh+zvPmGVUAZ5oVyElxxI4X2x+4eRgTWUGWcK8mW/2zjoT6 yeSZoKe/ZN8Y3dKVrhub1Jp3QHZm4OO5DSDQ0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=mHy/6r/bkFF+yZGnVE0h6RTqcEI3c9BWPIW+H4LWnEl8xOZt2v87O/PfJRsX36GMH+ AfdPywH+t170bmhfCwuN4ci8jbcDVEdXMjL+FU6RDRJ7m+4bEXSqY4HTeTFIYVl8IM5G jKPXDiCE++35qjl99CVmtfHyjY3ygtGJ2pqLo= Received: by 10.213.17.81 with SMTP id r17mr68182eba.15.1288817668013; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:54:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-2-42.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.2.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v51sm6956697eeh.10.2010.11.03.13.54.26 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:54:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up two monitors Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 22:55:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-ck; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Mick References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011032255.01435.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7740a750-130a-462e-8a83-26aadbf7b3a8 X-Archives-Hash: 4613e8a03ce72aefbceca6c62907e05c Apparently, though unproven, at 22:51 on Wednesday 03 November 2010, Mick did opine thusly: > Hi All, > > I am trying to set up two monitors, but have next to no experience on > the subject. Last time I set up two monitors on a machine was years > ago and I recall using xinerama and xorg.conf. Now I do not use > xorg.conf and I'm still running x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.7-r1 > > Upon booting up this machine showed both monitors with the same > resolution and cloning each other. What video driver? > > $ xrandr -q > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1920 x 1920 > VGA-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y > axis) 359mm x 287mm > 1280x1024 75.0*+ 60.0 > 1152x864 75.0 > 1024x768 85.0 75.0 70.1 60.0 > 832x624 74.6 > 800x600 85.1 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 > 640x480 85.0 75.0 72.8 66.7 59.9 > 720x400 70.1 > DVI-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y > axis) 509mm x 286mm > 1920x1080 60.0 + > 1280x1024 75.0 60.0* > 1152x864 75.0 > 1024x768 75.0 60.0 > 800x600 75.0 60.3 > 640x480 75.0 59.9 > 720x400 70.1 > > To change the new larger monitor connected on the DVI port, I ran: > > $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto > > and that gave me: > > $ xrandr -q > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 1920 x 1920 > VGA-0 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y > axis) 359mm x 287mm > 1280x1024 75.0*+ 60.0 > 1152x864 75.0 > 1024x768 85.0 75.0 70.1 60.0 > 832x624 74.6 > 800x600 85.1 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 > 640x480 85.0 75.0 72.8 66.7 59.9 > 720x400 70.1 > DVI-0 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y > axis) 509mm x 286mm > 1920x1080 60.0*+ > 1280x1024 75.0 60.0 > 1152x864 75.0 > 1024x768 75.0 60.0 > 800x600 75.0 60.3 > 640x480 75.0 59.9 > 720x400 70.1 > > Is there some invocation to allow me to set this up like > MSWindows does? I mean, in WinXP all desktop icons and toolbar stays > at the bottom of the DVI monitor. The VGA monitor on the left just > shows the desktop background, but has no toolbar or desktop icons. > The user can however drag application windows from the DVI monitor to > the VGA monitor, seamlessly between the two. On this machine I can't > - they are just clones of each other ... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com