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#1 2009-07-22 19:10:29

sharpie
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From: Phoenix, AZ
Registered: 2008-11-16
Posts: 72

KDE can't unmirror screens [SOLVED]

I switched to KDE after having to rebuild.  I have two monitors, both of which are Acer x193w+.  When I had this machine running in Gnome, I used the following Xorg.conf file and simply unchecked the mirror screen tick in the display settings.  However, in KDE there's no similiar option under the System Settings > Display option.  It detects both screens as the same one and even goes so far as to say that when I select "Detect Screens".

I tried this:

xrandr --output monitor0 --auto --rotate normal --pos 0x0 --output monitor1 --auto -rotate normal --right-of monitor0

...but it just returned the output of xrandr -h

Here is my xorg.conf file:

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

Section "Files"
        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  "extmod"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "dri"   
        Load  "glx"   
        Load  "dbe"   
        Load  "dri2"  
EndSection            

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"      
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   "Acer"    
        ModelName    "x193w+"  
EndSection                     

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor1"
        VendorName   "Acer"    
        ModelName    "x193w+"  
EndSection                     


Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"             
        ### [arg]: arg optional                                      
        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]           
        #Option     "AccelMethod"               # [<str>]            
        #Option     "offscreensize"             # [<str>]            
        #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]           
        #Option     "ignoreconnector"           # [<str>]            
        #Option     "forcereduced"              # [<bool>]           
        #Option     "forcedpi"                  # <i>                
        #Option     "useconfiguredmonitor"      # [<bool>]           
        #Option     "HPD"                       # <str>              
        #Option     "NoRandr"                   # [<bool>]           
        #Option     "RROutputOrder"             # [<str>]            
        #Option     "DRI"                       # [<bool>]           
        #Option     "TVMode"                    # [<str>]
        #Option     "ScaleType"                 # [<str>]
        #Option     "UseAtomBIOS"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "AtomBIOS"                  # [<str>]
        #Option     "UnverifiedFeatures"        # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Audio"                     # [<bool>]
        #Option     "HDMI"                      # [<str>]
        #Option     "COHERENT"                  # [<str>]
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "radeonhd"
        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "Mobility Radeon HD 3600 Series"
        BusID       "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Virtual 3320 2100
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen1"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor1"
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

I set the Virtual as double both measurements like last time.  I've fallen short of ideas here...  Any input would be super appreciated.

I just ran xrandr and this is the output:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 3320 x 2100
DVI-I_1/digital connected 1680x1050+0+0 408mm x 255mm                
   1680x1050      60.0*+   59.9                                      
   1600x1200      59.9                                               
   1280x1024      75.0     59.9                                      
   1440x900       74.9     60.0                                      
   1280x960       59.9                                               
   1152x864       74.9                                               
   1280x720       59.9                                               
   1024x768       75.1     70.1     60.0                             
   832x624        74.6                                               
   800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2                    
   640x480        75.0     72.8     66.7     60.0                    
   720x400        70.1                                               
DVI-I_1/analog disconnected                                          
TV_7PIN_DIN disconnected                                             
DVI-I_2/digital connected 1680x1050+0+0 408mm x 255mm                
   1680x1050      60.0*+   59.9                                      
   1600x1200      59.9                                               
   1280x1024      75.0     59.9                                      
   1440x900       74.9     60.0                                      
   1280x960       59.9                                               
   1152x864       74.9                                               
   1280x720       59.9                                               
   1024x768       75.1     70.1     60.0                             
   832x624        74.6                                               
   800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2                    
   640x480        75.0     72.8     66.7     60.0                    
   720x400        70.1                                               
DVI-I_2/analog disconnected

I'm certain it's the problem, but I'm not certain how to fix it.

Last edited by sharpie (2009-07-22 22:05:13)

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#2 2009-07-22 22:04:54

sharpie
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From: Phoenix, AZ
Registered: 2008-11-16
Posts: 72

Re: KDE can't unmirror screens [SOLVED]

Well unless I'm mistaken the root of the problem is that KDE doesn't support dual head cards the way I intended.

A problem solved is a problem solved I suppose.

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