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#1 2009-10-06 03:02:35

calvin
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Registered: 2009-10-04
Posts: 6

[SOLVED] Conky fails to draw double buffer?

I recently installed conky and it works great...except it can't draw to double buffer so it flickers.  Here's the output from starting conky:

Conky: desktop window (4ac) is root window
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x1600001)
Conky: failed to set up double buffer
Conky: drawing to single buffer

I'm running triples monitors with Xinerama.  Here's my xorg:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 1050 146
    Screen      1  "Screen1" 0 0
    Screen      2  "Screen2" 2970 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "1"
    Option         "DontZap" "false"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "DELL 2408WFP"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 76.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor1"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "DELL 2007WFP"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 76.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor2"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "DELL 2007WFP"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 76.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 7900 GT/GTO"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device1"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 6600 GT"
    Option         "Rotate" "CCW"
    BusID          "PCI:2:0:0"
    Screen          0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device2"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 6600 GT"
    Option         "Rotate" "CCW"
    BusID          "PCI:2:0:0"
    Screen          1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen1"
    Device         "Device1"
    Monitor        "Monitor1"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen2"
    Device         "Device2"
    Monitor        "Monitor2"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

"dbe" gets loaded by default so I don't need to worry about that.  Any ideas?

Last edited by calvin (2009-10-06 18:31:46)

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#2 2009-10-06 18:31:27

calvin
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Registered: 2009-10-04
Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Conky fails to draw double buffer?

Apparently nvidia prevents initializing the double buffering with Xinerama enabled.  I guess I'm just going to have to let conky flicker =\

See: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=110660

Are there any other solutions to having triple monitors without using Xinerama?

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#3 2013-07-22 17:27:42

Alp
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Registered: 2008-09-27
Posts: 89

Re: [SOLVED] Conky fails to draw double buffer?

I have the same issue. I have triple monitors on an ATI Radeon 7950, set up with Xinerama. Conky flickers because it cannot initialize double buffer. Is there any solution?

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#4 2013-07-22 18:01:25

jasonwryan
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Registered: 2009-05-09
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Re: [SOLVED] Conky fails to draw double buffer?

Please don't necrobump threads, especially solved ones: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27



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