-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Scott, Am Mittwoch, 5. Mai 2004 18:44 schrieb Scott Rubin: > Christian, > > Thanks, that almost worked. The problem is that I don't have two video > cards, they both the DVI and the CRT heads have the same BusID. I think > that is mainly what's throwing everything off. The only way I can get > both heads to work right now is with TwinView, but twinview is no good. > It just takes both of my monitors and turns them into one big one. I > mean, it should be very possible to do what I want, it just seems that > nobody really knows how. Maybe I'll try using xinerama, it still sticks > me with just one login and one window manger, maybe I'll get used to it. I have the same situation: A matrox G550, just one BusID. It's not that nobody knows how. What you want is just not supported. Let me explain. In short it's because a) Two instances of cannot share the same graphics hardware simultaneously. So you'd need a single instance. b) A single instance can't start two displays, only one with more than one screen. c) X authorization is on a per-display-basis, not a per-screen-basis d) xdm uses X authorization e) most window managers work on a per-display-basis, not a per-screen-basis. Seeing them starting an instance for each screen should not belie the fact that most of them get really confused if they manage only one, not all screens of a display, which I tried with kwin, kvwm2 and twm. You could try to get around problems a) and b) by: a) not use Xinerama b) use DisplayManager.*.terminateServer false in xdm-config c) start X with option -noreset But the next issue is telling xdm to display two login screens, and this is where it fails because xdm knows the difference between displays and screens. What you would need is an X server that treats the two heads not as two screens for the same display but as each a display of its own. Though it would be a nice feature, XFree86 does not support this. Theoretically you might start X as root and run your own login manager which you manually told to display xlogin for each screen instead of xdm, but this is not a real solution, just a maybe possible hack working not very well. If I am wrong, anybody please tell me, because I myself would really like to have a two keyboard two mice two heads one busid solution. Bye - -- ITCQIS GmbH Christian Wolfgang Hujer E-Mail: Christian.Hujer@xxxxxxxxxx WWW: http://www.itcqis.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAmr1rMgwgpCF2K9sRApJeAJ9jxuJy1zAWWOqWOW7wPr7ZVelwigCdFwiq 39QQPx9raV9EP2IDEft4fvc= =m2VP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
