Re: Gnome on mulitdisplay matters.
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 22:52, Nicolas CANIART wrote:
> Michel Dänzer a écrit :
>
> >On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 16:25, Nicolas CANIART wrote:
> >
> >>Nick Monkman a écrit :
> >>
> >>>On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 05:04, Nicolas CANIART wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>When i start a Gnome session with my dual head conf. the sensitive
> >>>>windows of the desktop (the ones you can click) are displayed on one
> >>>>screen, and there content (the pictures, text etc...) is displayed on
> >>>>the other screen (respectively the left [screen0 for X] and right
> >>>>[screen 1]).
> >>>>I can't find in the archives anything like this.
> >>>>
> >>>>It seem not to be linked with the window manager since the matters
> >>>>appears with both Metacity and Sawfish Window managers.
> >>
> >>My card is an ATI Radeon 7000 (quite old but I thought it should be
> >>easier to make it work :-( ).
> >
> >What version of XFree86 are you using? The radeon driver in 4.3.0 might
> >work better than older versions.
> >
> I've tried Daniel Stone's backport for Woody and i'am currently trying
> with the unstable packages (i.e. the 4.3.0-0ds2.0.0woody2), without
> anymore success.
[...]
> To get GDM properly working i've been obliged to set its XineramaScreen
> var to 1 (the 2nd and last screen). Other it runs the same way has Gnome.
Hmm, this sounds like it might be a client (GTK?) issue after all.
Does Option "NoAccel" work around the problem?
> PS: I'am using a flat panel and a CRT screen but i've never read that it
> could matter in the numerous mails-lists in which I've search for a
> solution.
Indeed, it shouldn't matter.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
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