Xinerama dead? If not, Xinerama and Compiz-Fusion?
Hal V. Engel
hvengel at astound.net
Wed Feb 20 21:27:10 PST 2008
On Wednesday 20 February 2008 21:15:47 Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 23:31 +0100, Maarten Maathuis wrote:
> > On 2/20/08, Rui Tiago Cação Matos <tiagomatos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 20/02/2008, Chad <masterclc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I've been reading threads all day regarding the use of Xinerama.
> > > > I've been using TwinView (GeForce 7600GT) but it had some quarks. I
> > > > have 2 different size monitors, 1 19" square (1600x1200) and 1 19"
> > > > wide (1440x900) connected to the DVI ports on the card. With
> > > > Twinview there was no way to have both monitors at their max
> > > > resolution, instead the wide had a resolution of 1440x1200 and
> > > > "panned" up and down.
> > >
> > > You can put twinview no work without panning. Check the docs.
> > >
> > > > So, enough background... The threads I've been following seem to
> > > > suggest Xinerama has been replaced with xRandr2? If so, how do I
> > > > "switch"?
> > >
> > > Current nvidia driver does not support randr 1.2. Go bug nvidia about
> > > that.
> > >
> > >
> > > Rui
>
> and Xinerama with Compiz-Fusion works ?
>
> Regards,
No it does not. In my case I need to be able to calibrate my monitors for
color critical work. So I can either have TwinView which supports
Compiz-Fusion or calibrated monitors but not both with the proprietary nvidia
drivers. So for me no Compiz-Fusion.
Hal
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