On Monday 18 December 2006 12:49, Clayton wrote:
I also have a W2k partition which my son uses for his games. On W2k it is possible to run a game in 3D on one screen. When we try to run 3D games in SUSE using Cedega we cannot achieve the same. In other words what we get is the game spread across the two screens.
I have looked at the NVIDIA server settings GUI but I can't find a setting there, nor in SAX.
My question is, is what I want to do possible in Linux ?
It is definitely possible with nVidia cards... basically there are a couple of lines you need to add to your xorg file that will tell X that when an application wants full screen - like Cedega, it switches modes and displays the game full screen on one monitor only. The other monitor is turned off until you exit the game.
This is actually all nicely documented in the nVidia documentation - where I figured it all out.
What you're looking for is a feature called Metamodes. I've included the relevant parts of an old xorg that I set up manually... this worked on dual head setup with an Acer 15 TFT and a 15 CRT. Note - this is a trimmed xorg... the superfluous/unrelated bits have been stripped. If you use this type of setup, you do not need multiple xorgs or weird DISPLAY settings, etc. just the single xorg using metamodes.
I'd highly recommend you go read the nVidia documentation on this feature. It's well documented and has examples etc. Clayton
Thanks, I'll have a look at the docs in the next day or so. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org