Re: xscreensaver problems on dual monitors

["Michel Dänzer" <daenzer at debian dot org>]

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 14:29 +0200, Jurrie Overgoor wrote:
> John Baab wrote:
>
> >  As far as I know this is how it works, xinerama features are not
> >  fully functional in the ATI drivers. I did some reasearch when I
> >  first installed my ATI drivers and found that there was no fix for
> >  it, this was quite a few months ago. I can tell you that I am still
> >  getting the same results with xorg. Maximizing a video to both
> >  monitors should also only disply on a single monitor, at least thats
> >  what mine does.
>
> I was browsing through the changelog of X.org, and I found the project 
> Xdmx (http://dmx.sourceforge.net/). It is used to combine multiple X 
> servers to one screen, usually for video-walls etc. Since the Ati 
> drivers have a '2 X-servers mode', I thought Xdmx might be used to 
> combine these two servers to one dual-screen display.

I just did a quick test,

Xdmx :1 -display :0.0 -display :0.1

seems to start at least... Have fun exploring this further, and let the
list know what you find. :)


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