Dnia 2011-10-19, śro o godzinie 13:27 +0000, Dan Egnor pisze:
> Sigh.  OK, I'll put this in the "nvidia, why u no ..." bucket.  Go
> ahead and close the bug, though seems like it would be nice to get a
> sensible error instead of just a corrupt screen.
That's roughly what we intend to do.

> (TwinView really only works with two heads.  The NVS 450 is basically
> two video cards on one PCI card with some common support circuitry;
> TwinView doesn't like crossing from one GPU to the other.  Xinerama
> may be deprecated but it's actually the only option here.  If I turn
> it off and run nvidia-settings, it lets me combine two screens on one
> card, and helpfully offers to make the third screen a separate X
> display...)
Yeah, gotcha.

> For now I'm happy to run without compositing, I'm just afraid some day
> I'll fall off the bottom of what you're willing to support.  :-)
There are also other desktop flavors available, like XFCE, that run fine
without compositing and may just float your boat.

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