I think this is new to the cvs version, and may even be only for the ati driver (since I have no idea about the internal workings, this is just what my setup is and does), but the virtual size seemed to be setting itself to the highest mode it -thought- my monitors could support (apparantly based on the sync rates I specified). That is, my two monitors are setting themselves to 1920x??? and 1600x1200. But the two monitors really can only do 1600x1200 and 1280x1024, respectively. Also my screen section only requests 1024x786. Irregardless, the virtual resolution was set to the first pair of numbers, and the physical to the last pair. Here are the relavent lines: Section "Monitor" Identifier "CTX:1705" HorizSync 30-95 VertRefresh 50-160 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "MIT:17HX" HorizSync 30-82 VertRefresh 50-130 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Left Screen" # Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 7500 [RV200 QW]" Device "analog port" Monitor "CTX:1705" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" # virtual 1024 768 Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Right Screen" # Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 7500 [RV200 QW]" Device "digital port" Monitor "MIT:17HX" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" # virtual 1024 768 Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Left Screen" Screen "Right Screen" LeftOf "Left Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" Option "Xinerama" "On" EndSection With the above configuration the virtual sizes are set much too high. However, if you comment out the virtual directive, you can get the expected behavior. I just wanted to say that, since maybe someone also had this problem and couldn't find the virtual directive. Also, does anyone know if this behavior is supposed to be happening in the CVS version? Or is a fluke of my (wacky) setup? Cheers, Adam Luter On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 07:12:16AM -0800, Robert P. Thille wrote: > I ran into that, and some searching seemed to indicate that the size of > the virtual desktop is always the size of the largest resolution you > have specified in your XFree86Config file. So, if you have a setting > for 1600x1200, but are (currently) running the monitor at 1280x1024, > the virtual desktop is still at 1600x1200. So, if you really aren't > going to use the 1600x1200 setting you can set it so the one you use is > the biggest one in the config file. > > Hope that helps. > > Robert (X newbie too) _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
