Xrandr does not support screen size across two screens

Tino Keitel tino.keitel+xorg at tikei.de
Thu Nov 27 22:47:23 PST 2008


On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 17:45:41 +0000, Tobias Kaminsky wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I am starting X across two screens using two graphic adapters. When I
> load Xephyr into it, I cannot adjust the size with xrandr to the
> maximum of 2560x1024 (2 tfts of 1280x1024).
> Xrandr's output says that the maximum is 1600x1200 (which could be
> the maximum of 1! tft, I guess).

I don't know any details about Xephyr, but the current stable release
of the Xserver doesn't allow multihead accross multiple graphic
adapters. This is a planned feature of Xserver 1.6.

Regards,
Tino



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