[SGVLUG] Loss of keyboard function on screen 1 of two

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On 6/12/07, John E. Kreznar <jek at ininx.com> wrote:
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> "Claude Felizardo" <cafelizardo at gmail.com> writes:
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> > Any particular reason why you prefer separate X window sessions
> > instead of xinerama?  I much prefer being able to drag windows from
> > one screen to another ...
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> Yes!
>
> > and especially being able to stretch a window as wide as possible
> > when looking at logs and reports.
>
> Yes!
>
> I wanted to use xinerama, but there was some obstacle.  Rummaging
> around now to find it...
>
> ...Now I can't even find the documentation for it!  One of my Debian
> sid installations has xserver-xorg-core version 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-2 and
> that has man pages for xorg.conf and Xserver which at least mention
> xinerama.  Another sid installation here has version 1:1.0.2-5 which
> doesn't even have that.  A Debian 3.1 (sarge) box here has man X from
> xfree86-common version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3, but no mention of
> xinerama.
>
> It seems that the transition from xfree86 to xorg.conf has left the
> documentation in shambles.
>
> It may be that the problem was heterogeneous screens.  One has an ati
> driver (possibly soon to be supplanted by that Diamond Viper AGP from
> Eric Theis) and 1280x1024 resolution, the other a trident driver and
> 1024x768 resolution.

heterogeneous cards should not be a problem as long as the driver
supports xinerama at all. You lose 3d acceleration with anything other
then two simalar Nvidia Cards. xinerama has been around sense xfree4.0
so all the versions talked about above should work.

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