[Libdlo] Xinerama not working on Moblin

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Thu Apr 8 09:26:45 PDT 2010


On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 04:52:17PM +0530, Akshay Sathe wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am working on enabling the dual screen display on Moblin netbook version
> via display link. After struggling a little, I was able to achieve it
> partially.
> 
> Although the display on both the screens comes up perfectly, I am still
> facing the problem of not being able to transfer windows from one screen to
> the other. I believe Xinerama should be used for this purpose; however
> setting on the xinerama option in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file does not
> achieve this. All windows open in the main screen by default. I am able to
> export windows on the display link screen via the command line.
> 
> I have made sure that the color depth for both the screens is 16 and the
> resolution I am using is 1280x1024 for both the screens. Also X -version
> gives the version as 1.6.5. Could this be a problem?

I do not think that the moblin version of x has xinerama support in it,
have you checked that?

Which version of moblin are you using?  Have you tried the latest meego
snapshots instead?

thanks,

greg k-h


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