enabling Composite

Adam K Kirchhoff adamk at voicenet.com
Mon Jul 28 01:19:39 PDT 2008


On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:15:45 +0200
"Edwin Smulders" <edwin.smulders at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Adam K Kirchhoff
> <adamk at voicenet.com> wrote:
> > This will definitely fix your problem.  Xinerama + Composite do not
> > work together with the nvidia drivers.  nvidia says this is a
> > limitation in the xserver.  I'm not sure what, if anything, the Xorg
> > developers say.
> >
> > Since Composite was being enabled in your xorg.conf file, but not
> > showing up in xdpyinfo, the fact that you were using xinerama is the
> > only logical conclusion, though it took me longer to get to that
> > conclusion than it should have :-)
> >
> > Adam
> 
> Thanks for your help, I enabled Twinview and Composite worked without
> a problem. While we're on this topic, the reason I used Xinerama was
> that Twinview+xrandr reports my resolution as 3360x1050, is it
> possible to make twinview or xrandr report 2 monitors with the
> correct resolution?
> 

Not that I know of.

Adam

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