Xinerama support under KDE 3.4.1 on Gentoo

Boky Gmail verynotbad at gmail.com
Mon Sep 26 15:45:26 BST 2005


Sure did.

First time around, KDE was compiled without the xinerama flag. I
unmerged everything and compiled again. Made damn sure this time I get
it right. Still, is there anyway to check wether Xinerama flag was
used?

On 9/26/05, Justin Denick <justin.denick at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 & KDE 3.4.1 with 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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