Jaunty - can I disable xinerama?

[Mark Greenwood]

On Wednesday 13 May 2009 18:27:41 Derek Broughton wrote:
> Mark Greenwood wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 13 May 2009 14:14:45 Derek Broughton wrote:
> >> Mark Greenwood wrote:
> >> 
> >> > I will probably raise this as a bug,
> >> 
> >> It isn't...
> >> 
> >> > but X confuses the living goo out of
> >> > me so I'd like to probe the collective wisdom here first..
> >> > 
> >> > On my Asus eee box, X has inexplicably decided I have 2 displays
> >> > attached, despite there only being one connector for a monitor, and
> >> > that being connected to my flatscreen TV's VGA port.
> >> 
> >> Then, by definition, you have two displays.  There's clearly a second
> >> display on your eee.
> > 
> > No, there isn't. There is one DVI port, which is connected to the one VGA
> > port on my TV via a suitable connector. 
> 
> Are you trying to tell me that your eee, unlike every one I've ever seen, 
> doesn't have a display in its lid?

Yes :)

I refer the honourable gentleman to my original post:
>>On my Asus eee box

This is an Eee Box - a desktop PC. It doesn't have a lid :)

I wonder if the internal hardware is the same as the laptop version and that's what's confusing X? Funny though how it worked under Intrepid. It's only since the upgrade to Jaunty that this has started happening.

Mark

> 
> It doesn't matter how many VGA or DVI ports you have, the internal screen is 
> one display, and external (VGA or DVI) ports are additional.  You _can_ 
> disable either one - most modern PCs disable the external as soon as you 
> unplug it, but the _internal_ screen needs either hardware or software 
> control, and it's entirely possible that your old configuration either (a) 
> couldn't handle multiple displays, so it automatically disabled the internal 
> when an external display was connected, or (b) you used to use a function-
> key sequence to switch displays which your current setup isn't recognizing.
> -- 
> derek
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