Xinerama support under KDE 3.4.1 on Gentoo

Justin Denick justin.denick at gmail.com
Mon Sep 26 13:22:38 BST 2005


When you compiled KDE, did you enable the USE flage xinerama?

On 9/25/05, Boky Gmail <verynotbad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> I have been struggling with this problem for quite a while and cant
> seem to find a solution:
>
> I have two monitors: Matrox G200 @ 1024x768 and ATI Mach64 @ 800x600.
>
> I installed Gentoo linux and compiled X.org <http://X.org> & KDE 3.4.1with Xinerama
> support. Now, while xorg.conf includes "Option xinerama" and it works
> quite nicely KDE seems to be xinerama-ignorant:
> - windows get resized across both screens when i press maximize
> - dialogs get split in the middle of both windows
> - pop-up menus "falling off" of the smaller screen
> - no sign of any "multi-monitor" or "xinerama" support in KDE Control
> center
>
> Now, I've googled around, checked IRC but noone has any smart ideas.
> Can anyone point me at what can I do/check for next?
>
> This is my xorg.conf:
>
> <snip>
> Section "ServerFlags"
> ...
> Option "Xinerama" "on"
> ...
> EndSection
> ...
> Section "Device"
> Option "HWcursor" "True"
> Option "OverclockMem" "True"
> Identifier "Card0"
> Driver "mga"
> VendorName "Matrox Graphics, Inc."
> BoardName "MGA G200 AGP"
> BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Card1"
> Driver "ati"
> VendorName "ATI"
> BoardName "264VT [Mach64 VT]"
> ChipSet "ati"
> ChipId 0x5654
> ChipRev 0x8
> BusID "PCI:0:16:0"
> EndSection
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