Xinerama Screen Resolution Problem

[James Strandboge]

On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 10:45 -0600, drew einhorn wrote:
> Now that I have Xinerama turned on I can drag windows from monitor to
> monitor.
> 
> But turning on Xinerama change the screen resolution on both monitors.
> 
> One monitor changed a much higher resolution with tiny print, 
> and the other monitor changed to a lower resolution and not much fits
> on the screen.
> 

You just need to adjust different resolutions in the xorg.conf file.
Eg, I have:

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "ATI1"
        Monitor         "Generic Monitor"
        DefaultDepth    24
...
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           24
                Modes           "1400x1050"
        EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Screen2"
        Device          "ATI2"
        Monitor         "External Monitor"
        DefaultDepth    24
...
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           24
                Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
                #Virtual                1400 1050
        EndSubSection
EndSection


> And now the System->Preferences->Screen Resolution tool doesn't work.
> If I try to change the resolution it says:
> 
>   The X Server does not support the XRandR extension.  Runtime
> resolution
>   changes to the display size are not available.
> 
> The Screen Resolution tool works fine if Xinerama is not turned on.

This is the current state of the X server.

Jamie

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