Re: HELP!! Dual monitors - Primary shuts off when mouse moves off it!

From: Greg Courville (EngNOSPAMinuitor_at_Gee-Enginuity.com)
Date: 12/01/03

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    Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 17:26:27 -0800

    I would post this on Experts-Exchange too if I hadn't used up my meager
    allowance of points already...

    Getting back on the subject...
    > what happens when you try to move the mouse back to the dark region?
    The primary monitor remains powered off, and my scope shows no sync signal
    coming from the card. However, the system continues to act as if there is a
    display there, e.g. I can move windows and the mouse cursor throughout the
    entire desktop (off the side of the working screen), and the the taskbar and
    icons and everything are apparently over there too, making the system a
    little inconvenient to use! :)

    There were no obvious errors when X started up, but I guess maybe something
    is crashing when the cursor leaves the primary screen?
    I will check every log file I can think of. In the mean time, is there
    anybody who has heard of a similar problem?

    ...and I can't believe I'm saying this after so much complaining about
    offtopicness, but I can actually remove the addresses themselves as opposed
    to just blocking them, so even if I had a cap on my email bandwidth, it
    wouldn't be an issue. I think of it as making it harder for spammers as I am
    adding bum addresses to their lists! And consider this -- for every 2000
    spams that bounce off my nonexistent addresses, that's 2000
    undeliverable-message errors pissing off spammers' ISP's!

    Thanks! 

    --
Greg Courville
http://www.gee-enginuity.com/
"kernel: lp0 on fire... really!"
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