I have managed to get xinerama working with the ATI 7500 on SuSE 8.0. I am not entirely happy with it and need to do more work on setting the resolutions of the monitors (a 15 inc and a 17 inch). My quiestion at the moment is, is it possible to switch at startx between two separate XF86configs as I would like to be able to choose between the two. If its possible how do I do it ? TIA Mike
I have done what I think you want to do in the past. After setting up two XF86configs (eg XF86config_1024 and XF86config_640) I have two scripts which link the real XF86config to either one. 1): script x1024: #!/bin/sh cd /etc/X11 su -c "ln -fs XF86Config_1024 XF86Config" 2): script x640: #!/bin/sh cd /etc/X11 su -c "ln -fs XF86Config_640 XF86Config" After running x1024 or x640 you can then run startx Hope this is what you wanted. Regards, Terry michael norman wrote:
... My quiestion at the moment is, is it possible to switch at startx between two separate XF86configs as I would like to be able to choose between the two. If its possible how do I do it ?
TIA
Mike
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Terry Thanks. What I'm trying to achieve is to be able to switch between my normal XF86Config which runs my main monitor at 1280 X 1024 and my other XF86config which runs both monitors at 1024 X 768 as this is the highest resolution that the smaller monitor will support. This is the dualhead config, and I'd like to be able to play around with the issues I still have with this whislt still being able to have my normal setup available. So I sppose I could call the first one XF86Config_main and the second XF86Config_dualhead ? And then set up the scripts ? Could you give me a walk through on writing the scripts and where to put them ? I've not yet written any scripts. Having written the scripts at what point do I run whichever I want ? Thanks Mike On Sunday 15 September 2002 17:53, Terry Eck wrote:
I have done what I think you want to do in the past. After setting up two XF86configs (eg XF86config_1024 and XF86config_640) I have two scripts which link the real XF86config to either one. 1): script x1024: #!/bin/sh cd /etc/X11 su -c "ln -fs XF86Config_1024 XF86Config" 2): script x640: #!/bin/sh cd /etc/X11 su -c "ln -fs XF86Config_640 XF86Config" After running x1024 or x640 you can then run startx
Hope this is what you wanted.
Regards, Terry
* michael norman <micnorman@lineone.net> [09-15-02 15:38]:
Having written the scripts at what point do I run whichever I want ?
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Hi, Has anyone had any success sync'ing a Handspring Visor (or any Palm-type device) via usb? I'm running SuSE 8.0 and I can't seem to get pilot-xfer to bind to any of the /dev/usb/ttyUSB* devices - even after updating to version 0.11.3 of the pilot-link utilities. I'd like to sync using Kpilot so that maybe I can synchronise the calendar on my laptop with the calendar on my PDA, but I'm willing to use Jpilot just to have a backup of my data. Thanks, Steve
On Sunday 15 September 2002 19:57, Steve Sivier wrote:
Hi, Has anyone had any success sync'ing a Handspring Visor (or any Palm-type device) via usb? I'm running SuSE 8.0 and I can't seem to get pilot-xfer to bind to any of the /dev/usb/ttyUSB* devices - even after updating to version 0.11.3 of the pilot-link utilities. I'd like to sync using Kpilot so that maybe I can synchronise the calendar on my laptop with the calendar on my PDA, but I'm willing to use Jpilot just to have a backup of my data.
Thanks, Steve
I had a palm and couldn't get a USB cradle to work. It did work fine on a serial cradle with Jpilot. The next kernel should have better USB support from what I've seen. John -- "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." -- Robert Frost
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