Xinerama & i810 driver version 2.0.0

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Thu May 10 17:50:02 PDT 2007


On Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:46 pm Gerhard Mourani wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I know that Intel driver has been completely rewritten and that now
> it's supposed to work fine with Linux and X version 1.3. I'm also
> understand that dual head with clone mode is auto detected and a
> quick test show me that it correctly detect the screen but not the
> resolution. That's not a problem for me because what I want to do
> with dual head is to be able to use it with xinerama (working on both
> screen). My question is, how to do this (enable xinerama or new way
> to do it) and have my second external screen work in dual head (not
> clone mode)?

At the moment, your best bet is probably to use the 'xrandr' 
application.  It should be part of your distribution, if not you can 
get it from freedesktop.org.  I've heard of various KDE & GNOME related 
projects that are implementing front ends for the new Randr1.2 
extension, but I don't know of any that are usable yet.

Jesse



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