On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Adam Jackson wrote:
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From: Adam Jackson <ajax@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: X11 server Virtual Desktop Support
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 20:57 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote:
The above log snippets were taking from my machine running
Fedora 8. The virtual keyword works fine on F8, despite what
the messages say above. I only use virtual screens to give
me a taller screen size. I don't particularly care about
horizontal panning around the screen as well.
Are you saying that the virtual keyword is still supported
by RH in F9? Is that what you want me to file the bug report
against?
If it doesn't work in F9, then a log file showing the failure mode in F9
is what I'd need to see, yes.
- ajax
... I seem to have got the idea from somewhere that the
virtual keyword is not supported in xorg.conf anymore. I
think it was from a post on another mailing list where I
found this link:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11418
BTW - is this the same X11 server code that Fedora uses?
There seems to be more than 1 version of the X11 server code
available for downloading.
I did a full update of F9 and the virtual keyword is still
working OK. So I apologise for my original post comments.
My problem is with the xorg.conf file not having a monitor
section in it.
The font sizes in F6 and F8 work fine without the monitor
section and a DisplaySize keyword in xorg.conf.
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This is my full xorg.conf I'm using now with F8:
# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Virtual 800 1800
EndSubSection
EndSection
----------------------------------------------------
This is my xorg.conf for F9
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
----------------------------------------------------
I have tried changing the above F9 Section "Screen" to:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Virtual 800 1800
Modes "800x1800" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
But the font sizes are *way* to large. This is why I'm still
using F8.
The Xorg.0.log file (using startx -- -logverbose) tells me:
'''
(WW) No monitor specified for screen "Screen0".
Using a default monitor configuration.
'''
I think I need a Monitor section in the F9 xorg.conf to set
the font size with the DisplaySize keyword. I'm not sure how
to go about adding the Monitor section to the F9 xorg.conf
to implement this. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I enclose an attachment showing the present font sizes in mc
with a virtual setting of 800 x 1800.
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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