On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 08:17:22PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I just upgraded my dual-headed Sid box, with an integrated Intel > chipset (82865G) for one monitor and an ATI card (3D Rage II+ 215GTB > Mach 62) on the other, and dual-head broke. According to > http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/ReleaseNotes, there is breakage in > xinerama with both the ATI chipset and the Intel chipset. > > (Just FYO, apparently xorg.conf has been trimmed quite a bit also, > along with other changes (for example, the "i810" driver is now named > "intel", and you no longer need the HorizSync and VertRefresh lines in > the Monitor section, nor do you need Modes lines anymore).) > > I don't really understand all the geek-speak from what I've been able > to find, but it appears to me that xinerama has been deprecated in > favor of xrandr. Only thing is, I can't figure out how to get xrandr > ("X Rotate and Resize" seems to be the meaning of this name) working. > >From what I've been able to ascertain, running the command "xrandr" > should list all the video devices connected, but when I run it, all I > see is the Intel device:
my reading of the manpage tells me that it shows you the X Screens as opposed to the monitors. And it looks like you can set which "outputs" to manipulate. I don't have dual-head running so can't specifically help other than to point that out in hopes my interpretation is helpful. A
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