[SGVLUG] Problems with dual head with KDE 4.1

[John E. Kreznar]

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"Claude Felizardo" <cafelizardo at gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:02 PM, John E. Kreznar <jek at ininx.com> wrote:

>> "Claude Felizardo" <cafelizardo at gmail.com> writes:

>>> ... I still need to work out the left/right positions.  Why does
>>> everything assume the VGA output is on the left and the DVI output
>>> is on the right?  Can't find any settings to swap things.

>> Have you tried fiddling with the "RightOf" item in the "ServerLayout"
>> section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf?  Here's what it looks like in my
>> current dual head setup:

>> Section "ServerLayout"
>>        Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
>>        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>>        Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
>>        InputDevice    "Configured Mouse" "CorePointer"
>>        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>> EndSection

> I had been trying something like that using various example I've used
> on different machines.  I
> eventually got something sorta working by using aticonfig
> --initial=dual-head to create an initial template and adding 'Option
> "Xinerama" ' to the ServerLayout section.

My Xinerama option is in another section:

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option  "DontZap"
        Option "Xinerama" "true"
EndSection

I don't know that that's important.

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 John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13

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