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dninja

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2006-04-29

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evdev kills twinview

I've just upgraded to xorg 1.5 and removed the autodevice setting from my xorg.conf file and after a restart my three monitors which were combined to make a nice large desktop are now 3 separate monitors again.

The only reference I've found about this was someone saying they couldn't get it working. Should it work, and if so, what would I need to do to get my previously working setup working again?

randomguy

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Registered: 2007-06-19

Posts: 101

Re: evdev kills twinview

Look into the wiki article on hotplugging and port your configuration to the new hal interface.

Last edited by randomguy (2008-12-22 12:51:54)

dninja

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2006-04-29

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Re: evdev kills twinview

All the advice in the wiki is for keyboards and mice, they work fine it is the video that is bust for me.

AndyRTR

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From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: evdev kills twinview

why should hal configuration destryo twinview? i'm running a dualhead setup with niveau driver here as before. maybe you accidently removed some lines from your xorg.conf. you should diff them.

dninja

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2006-04-29

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Re: evdev kills twinview

don't know why it should, but it did!

I can't restart at the moment due to work but I'll be playing again later. If it works for you then at least I know that it should work and it is worth trying to fix it.

MoonSwan

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From: Great White North

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 881

Re: evdev kills twinview

On my system twinview got broken due to KDE4 itself.  For some reason it wouldn't play nice with the nvidia driver and I couldn't get any type of separate x-session or large desktop.  Is this a related issue?

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: evdev kills twinview

no problem here with twinview. you search the problem in the wrong place.

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STiAT

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2004-12-23

Posts: 606

Re: evdev kills twinview

Hmh, I've had a lot of problems with evdev - that's why i disabled it in my xorg.conf

Anyway, I'm running KDE 4.1, and KDE 4.2 beta2 with twinview and nvidia drivers. Even if i enable evdev it works properly.

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dninja

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2006-04-29

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Re: evdev kills twinview

I've tried making the change again and done a full system update and now it is working. Got caught out with the keyboard mappings not working but the wiki has instructions on how to fix that so I'll try, if not I'll be disabling it as well.