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["Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 02 September 2009 11:57:01 Graham Anderson wrote:
> Does anyone have nvidia specific dual head functionality "twinview" working
> on KDE _4.3_?

I believe that is how I have my desktop setup.  Admittedly it is not KDE 4.3, 
but it "just worked" when I moved from KDE 3.5.9/10 to KDE 4.2.

When I get to my desktop, I can send you whatever configuration you might find 
helpful.  I am using the "nvidia" driver, but a rather old version of it.

> Is dual monitor support in KDE4 still a pipe-dream?

Works here.

> Can anyone offer some *informed* advice about this or should I suck it up
> and go back to using KDE 3.5 for the next two years?

I can work with you on it a bit, but I'm not an expert of Xinerama, Twinview, 
or KDE's support for them and how it works under the covers.  I got pretty 
good resolving issues for a while there under KDE 3.5, but I haven't had 
anything about Twinview/Xinerama break since installing KDE 4.2.

> P.S. separate X-screens setup doesn't work either, with or without
> xinerama.

I've gotten Xinerama to work.  I don't think Twinview is any better for my 
usage; probably worse.

> P.P.S No, its not my config, my config works in KDE 3.5 and other desktop
> systems

That doesn't mean it is not your config.

"Proof" by analogy:
In C, printf("%s\n", MULL) prints "(null)" when using glibc, "" which using 
the AIX libc, and crashes on other platforms;  none of the platforms is at 
fault -- the code is bad even if it "works" on AIX.
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