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LonelyStar

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Registered: 2007-12-09

Posts: 123

Twinview - make enemy territory use left monitor

Hello together,

I am using Twinview for my dual monitor setup.
Works fine so far, but when I start a game like enemy territory I want it to use the LEFT Monior!
Unfortantly it appears on the right ...

I tried setting the left monitor as the primary display using nvidia-settings, but it did not help.

Here is my xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option         "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option  "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
        BoardName   "G80 [GeForce 8800 GTS]"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        Option     "TwinView" "1"
        Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-1"
        Option         "metamodes" "CRT-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, CRT-1: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0"
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     1
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     4
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     8
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     15
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Any advice?
Thanks!

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: Twinview - make enemy territory use left monitor

from here: http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L … er-13.html

Can I play full screen games across both display devices?
   

Yes. While the details of configuration will vary from game to game, the basic idea is that a MetaMode presents X with a mode whose resolution is the bounding box of the viewports for that MetaMode. For example, the following:

    Option "MetaModes" "1024x768,1024x768; 800x600,800x600"
    Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"

produce two modes: one whose resolution is 2048x768, and another whose resolution is 1600x600. Games such as Quake 3 Arena use the VidMode extension to discover the resolutions of the modes currently available. To configure Quake 3 Arena to use the above MetaMode string, add the following to your q3config.cfg file:

    seta r_customaspect "1"
    seta r_customheight "600"
    seta r_customwidth  "1600"
    seta r_fullscreen   "1"
    seta r_mode         "-1"

Note that, given the above configuration, there is no mode with a resolution of 800x600 (remember that the MetaMode "800x600, 800x600" has a resolution of 1600x600"), so if you change Quake 3 Arena to use a resolution of 800x600, it will display in the lower left corner of your screen, with the rest of the screen grayed out. To have single head modes available as well, an appropriate MetaMode string might be something like:

    "800x600,800x600; 1024x768,NULL; 800x600,NULL; 640x480,NULL"

More precise configuration information for specific games is beyond the scope of this document, but the above examples coupled with numerous online sources should be enough to point you in the right direction.

the last part is important. you should check game configuration

Last edited by wonder (2008-08-25 06:03:53)

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