Twinview: DFP order problem

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 10/19/05, Perret Yannick <yperret at in2p3.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a DELL D800 laptop with a 1920x1200
> display, which works fine.
> I'm using XOrg (6.8.2), and I want to connect
> an external display (iiyama ProLite H481S), on
> my VGA connector.
> My video card is a GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go AGP 8x.
>
> I declared twinview in xorg.conf, with (I think)
> the needed values, and both screens work fine...
> but I get the 'gdm' login on the external screen,
> not the internal.
>
> I tryed to permute the order of metamodes, and
> it changed nothing.
> I tryed to use ConnectedMonitor to force the
> order of monitor, but it changed nothing.

As is expected, as the ConnectedMonitor option is not meant for that purpose.

> And the way the mouse can go from one screen
> to another shows that xorg/nvidia considers my
> internal screen as the secondary one (the one
> that is "RightOf" the other).
>
> Anybody knows a reason for that?
> And more important a way to correct that?
>
> Here the "screen" section:
>     Identifier  "Screen 1"
>     Device      "NVidia"
>     Monitor     "My Monitor"
>     DefaultDepth 24
>
>     Option        "TwinView"    "true"
>     Option        "TwinViewOrientation" "LeftOf"
>     Option        "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP, CRT"
>     Option        "MetaModes"    "DFP: 1920x1200, CRT: 1280x1024"
> #    Option        "MetaModes"    "DFP-0: 1920x1200"
> #    Option        "MetaModes"    "DFP-0: 1920x1200, CRT-0:
> 1280x1024;1440x900,1280x1024;960x600,1280x1024;800x600,1280x1024;1920x1200;1280x1024"
>     Option        "NoMergedXinerama"    "true"
>     Option        "EnablePageFlip"    "true"
> (...)

So you're saying that changing "LeftOf" to "RightOf" has no effect?

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