On Donnerstag 27 August 2009, Allistar wrote: > Jesús Guerrero wrote: > > On Tue, August 25, 2009 23:56, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > >> On Tue, August 25, 2009 19:17, Sebastian BeÃler wrote: > >>> Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: > >>>> On Dienstag 25 August 2009, Sebastian BeÃler wrote: > >>>>> No, because I can't use randr as randr doesn't supports my setup at > >>>>> all. I had to deactivate randr-support in catalyst-drivers to get > >>>>> it working. With randr only stupid bigscreen is possible. This is > >>>>> the reason why I still stick with the closed driver, the open ones > >>>>> only support xrandr. > >>>> > >>>> hm, latest catalyst do have randr-1.2 support, does that help? > >>> > >>> Yes, it has and I had to deactivate it to get my setup running. Do you > >>> really read what I am writing? As I said randr doesn't support two > >>> separated displays, only bigscreen-mode. The people programming xorg > >>> and randr say that there is no need for the old behavior because nearly > >>> everything can be done with randr. Nearly yes but not that what I now > >>> have and need. > >> > >> Sorry to interrupt. Could you direct me how to disable xrandr for > >> this driver? I suspect it could be the culprit of a problem I am having > >> when updating it. > > > > Ignore please, I found it myself. And it, indeed, solved my problem, > > thanks a lot for the inspiration, this has been bothering me for > > some time. > > I've read this part of the thread with interest. Being a KDE3 user myself > (on AMD64) the one thing I won't sacrifice in the eventual move to KDE4 is: > a triple head setup with 2 separate desktops running compiz fusion on both. > I have two nVidia cards driving this and it works pretty well. I have > my "main" desktop occupying the left two LCD's in "bigscreen" mode and the > other desktop (i.e. a separate KDE instance) in the right hand 3rd monitor. > > Has anyone gotten a setup like this to work in KDE4 as it does in KDE3? > > What's the compiz support like in KDE4?
what compiz support? you can use compiz as a wm if you really have to. system-settings, default applications, windowmanager....
