On Friday 22 March 2002 19:45, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 22 March 2002 19.19, Jon Clausen wrote:
My experience with dual head is exactly nil, but here's a thought based on some general X ideas.
When you restored the config so it worked with wolfenstein, did it involve more than copying back the XF86Config file to /etc/X11?
Nope. Aside from RtCW got kind of confused, and was offset by (something like) 1/8th of the screen width, to the right. Had to muck around a bit with settings inside it, before 'load optimal screen resolution' put it straight...
If you have the dual head config running with /etc/X11/Xf86Config and have the "gaming config" in /etc/X11/XF86Config.gaming, try switching to a console, log in and do "startx -xf86config /etc/X11/XF86Config.gaming -- :1" I don't know if you'll have problems with kernel modules colliding, but theoretically it should work. Prepare for crashes, though. 3D isn't exactly the best tested aspect of linux.
Just a thought
Hm. Might be worth a try... This way I could also concieveably have a different (lighter) WM take care of stuff too (and get the benefit of not having all of kde2 loaded) ...no? I suspect I *will* be in for much Clashing of Kernel Modules and Crashing of 3D/X, but what the hell... ;) If this works, then there's just the issue of telling the system to make the nVidia card the primary one... (and subsequently exchanging the :1 with :0 in the above startx statement) any ideas on that? Thanks Jon