Re: 0triple monitor / dual video card set up

From	gianluca <gianlucarenzi@eurek.it>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: 0triple monitor / dual video card set up
Date	2016-04-15 17:20 +0200
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On 04/15/2016 04:34 PM, Seb wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 09:58:43 +0200,
> gianluca <gianlucarenzi@eurek.it> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> I am running the same configuration as you, but only two monitors.
>> One monitor is attached on the Radeon DVI output and the other on the
>> DVI-1 NVidia 6600 board (on PowerPC Quad-G5). All cards are
>> PCI-Express (16x and 8x slots).
>
> I see you're using Xinerama.  IIUC, this is meant to have the desktop
> stretched across all monitors.  I don't want that; I just need the other
> monitors as places I can drag windows to/from to be able to have several
> apps running and visible at all times.
>
>
>> Please refer to your monitors' timings for adjust the timings and
>> resolutions.
>
> I don't understand why this would be needed at all, given that I can see
> in /var/log/Xorg.0.log that everything about all monitors was accurately
> identified.  Not sure what section would actually need specifying.
>

Simply they are needed because of with Xinerama the Xrandr extensions 
are disabled. So I cannot be sure if the EDID data are read correctly.

> Thanks!
>


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0triple monitor / dual video card set up Seb <spluque@gmail.com> - 2016-04-14 14:40 +0200
  Re: 0triple monitor / dual video card set up Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-04-14 19:40 +0200
    Re: 0triple monitor / dual video card set up gianluca <gianlucarenzi@eurek.it> - 2016-04-15 10:10 +0200
      Re: 0triple monitor / dual video card set up Seb <spluque@gmail.com> - 2016-04-15 16:40 +0200
        Re: 0triple monitor / dual video card set up gianluca <gianlucarenzi@eurek.it> - 2016-04-15 17:20 +0200

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