Jostein Berntsen wrote:
On 13.04.05,07:50, Daniel Sheppeard wrote:
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Problem: I've recently installed a second grfx card and am trying to run double monitors. It seems to work pretty well most of the time, but now it freezes the system if I try to do any of the following: + run SaX2 + configure Date/Time through Yast + run YOU + insert a USB jump drive
And I mean freezes completely: I have to unplug my machine to unlock it.
I'm running Suse Personal 9.1 on an Athlon processor. My cards are a Diamond Radeon 7000 and an older Matrox card.
SuSE 5.3 ran dual heads with 1-AGP and 1-PCI video, at least on fvwm2. KDE didn't do as well in those days. SaX2 still has separate configs for each card, so they invite the use of different cards :-))
I have a Matrox G450 w/ SuSE 7.2, also a G550 w/ 9.2. ...
Look at dual head here:
http://cbielke.gmxhome.de/m6700n/
When you shall configure the cards with sax2 go to init 3 in root. Then start x with the xinerama option.
Are there problems running non-xinerama? I need 1280x or better on CAD screens, but often want to move down to 1024x or even 800x600 on the 2nd screen (reading maps, examining photo details, etc.). You don't get that with xinerama. SuSE 7.2 works fine w/o xinerama. SuSE 9.x introduced a small glitch. It is not possible to grab an xterm in one virtual screen and slide it to the RIGHT to the adjacent virtual screen ON THE RIGHT. It works to go up/down/left, just not right without xinerama. My sleuthing convinces me it was a problem in the "X" stuff, not SuSE. Unfortunately, Xorg doesn't seem to have corrected it yet.
- Jostein