Suse10 64 Xorg Twinview

[GmarAppledude]

I Installed Suse 10 64Bit Yesterday and got the Nivida Driver installed ok. Its working right now as we speak. My concern is that there doesn't seem to be anyway to set up Twinview using Sax2.

I have edited Xorg.conf a bit to try and get Xinerama working (as it does in Mepis). I broke X a few times but got it to a point where the PC is working again, the trouble is no second screen. So here is my current editied Xorg.conf sections. I have omitted the non related parts for brevity but its still quite a read.

So if any one fancies having a go at telling me what missing I'd be greatful, I have trawled through enough examples on the web to know I'm close but not quite. I'll try to comment this a bit also so you can tell what I've done. Its probably worth mentioning that both screens have equal capabilities so it doesn't really matter to me which is which!

Many thanks here we go:

# this was here already
Section "Monitor"
  DisplaySize  370 300
  HorizSync    29-67
  Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
  ModelName    "L90D+ DVI"
  Option       "DPMS"
  VendorName   "HIQ"
  VertRefresh  43-61
  UseModes     "Modes[0]"
EndSection

# I copied it here and edited the details
Section "Monitor"
  HorizSync    29-67
  Identifier   "Monitor[1]"
  ModelName    "L1710B"
  Option       "DPMS"
  VendorName   "HIQ"
  VertRefresh  43-61
  UseModes     "Modes[0]"
EndSection

# this was already here
Section "Modes"
  Identifier   "Modes[0]"
  Modeline 	"1280x1024" 106.97 1280 1360 1496 1712 1024 1025 1028 1059
  Modeline 	"1280x960" 99.36 1280 1352 1488 1696 960 961 964 993
  Modeline 	"1280x800" 82.07 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828
  Modeline 	"1152x864" 80.17 1152 1216 1336 1520 864 865 868 894
  Modeline 	"1280x768" 78.80 1280 1344 1480 1680 768 769 772 795
  Modeline 	"1024x768" 63.04 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 795
  Modeline 	"800x600" 37.52 800 832 912 1024 600 601 604 621
  Modeline 	"768x576" 34.32 768 792 872 976 576 577 580 596
  Modeline 	"640x480" 23.46 640 656 720 800 480 481 484 497
EndSection

# this was already here
Section "Screen"
  DefaultDepth 24 
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      15
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480" 
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      16
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480" 
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      24
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480" 
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      32
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480" 
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      8
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480" 
  EndSubSection
  Device       "Device[0]"
  Identifier   "Screen[0]"
  Monitor      "Monitor[0]"
EndSection

# I copied it here and edited it
Section "Screen"
  DefaultDepth 24
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      15
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      16
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      24
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      32
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth      8
    Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
  Device       "Device[0]"
  Identifier   "Screen[1]"
  Monitor      "Monitor[1]"
EndSection

# Added the twinview line.  The driver "nvidia" is definitely working!
Section "Device"
  BoardName    "GeForce 6800 GT"
  BusID        "1:0:0"
  Driver       "nvidia"
  Identifier   "Device[0]"
  Option       "TwinView"
  Screen       0
  VendorName   "NVidia"
EndSection

# added the last line here and turned Xinerama on
Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier   "Layout[all]"
  InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
  Option       "Clone" "off"
  Option       "Xinerama" "on"
  Screen       "Screen[0]"
  Screen       "Screen[1]" LeftOf "Screen[0]"
EndSection

Oh so close.

[je_fro]

take a look at an old one of mine....I think you need Option "TwinView" "on" in your device section...
http://jeffrey.homelinux.org/RRweb/files/xorg.conf.x86

[GmarAppledude]

Thanks Je_fro I had already looked at your files but didn't include a couple of options (that were necessary), In particular the MetaModes. By the way the option for TwinView in your linked file was "true" not "on" though I guess it's possible either would work I didn't try all the combinations. Now I just just need to reverse the left and right screens, and LeftOf RightOf doesn't help??? never mind there are a few thing to try now anyway. I'll post again when that done. I plan now to throw in my old matrox card and the third screen but i had that working before installing "nvidia", should be easy lol. Thanks again.

[GmarAppledude]

I never bothered with the matrox, but twinview is working perfectly. Another satisfied customer. Heehee

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