Re: Problem with Dual monitor order

From: NoneOfBusiness (NoneOfBusiness_at_nob.net)
Date: 10/09/05 

Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 11:42:11 -0400

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 07:10:25 +0200, "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>
wrote:

>NoneOfBusiness wrote:
>> I have a problem getting dual monitors to work correctly with twinview
>> enabled. I have two flat panel lcd's connected to a geforce 6600gt
>> card. one 19' connected via DVI and primary, one 17' connected via
>> analog and physically located to the right of the primary.
>>
>> After installing the nvidia drivers and i have tried this on Fedora
>> RC4, and Ubuntu my monitor on the right suddenly becomes my primary
>> forcing me to work right to left doing anything. I have tried
>> changing the physical connections on the video card to no avail and i
>> get the same result. This is true even in windows but its easy to
>> resolve using the nvidia utilities. Can anyone help me in resolving
>> this? I have included the relevant sections from xorg.conf
>
>You need to tell the nVidia driver which monitor should be first and which
>second, this can be done with the ConnectedMonitors and TwinViewOrientation,
>if I do remember it right.
>
>If you want to be really sure that you have the screens on the right place, I
>would make two different screens whit single view, one for the DVI and one for
>the CRT and then in the ServerLayout section make the following:
>
>
>Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
> Screen 0 "Screen0"
> Screen 1 "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0" # LeftOf RightOf Above Below
> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>EndSection
>
>(this will requier you to have 2x of 'Section "Monitor"', 'Section "Device"'
>and 'Section "Screen"' and the rest as they used to be).
>
>
>
> //Aho

Thanks but i have a question. If you do it this way, does it not do
two indepent screens where you cannot drag windows and such back and
forth?

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