Re: 2nd Xserver with different resolution

alythh@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I started playing in linux with the option to have 2 Xservers running
simultaneously (with startx -- :1).
I discovered it works, yet I have a glitch: the 2nd server starts OK,
but at a lower resolution.
Given this section of xorg.conf:
.......
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
........

I can rotate between 3 resolutions.
The strange thing is, in the new xserver I can still rotate the
resolution between 3 values, but they are (how can I say?) one step
lower than those, as if they were "800x600" "640x480" "320x240" (I dont
know exactly since I dont know how to measure the resolution).
How can it be? Why 1024x768 is not there, and where the new resolution
value comes from?

I checked the xorg logs and they don't show anything unusual.

Other info stuff: video card is ATI Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M, desktop
manager is IceWM.

Have you defined settings for a second X in your xorg.conf?
Does the second output device support the higher resolutions?
You can look in the log file Xorg.1.log for errors and warnings.


//Aho
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