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I installed mandrake 8 on my box. I went with the default KDE GUI. I am running dual monitors. It thinks my left monitor is on the right and my right monitor is on the left. In windows I could go into display properties and flip them. How can I accomplish this here?

Thanks,
Bot
 
Are you using "X +xinerama"??

Here are
some tips on using dual monitors in Linux.

Read this xinerama how to as well.

There is a section in the XF86Confile file where you say which one is on which side of the other... it looks like this:

Section "ServerLayout"
. Identifier "Simple Layout"
. Screen "Screen 2"
. Screen "Screen 1" RightOf "Screen 2"
. InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
. InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection


You probably just need to change that.
 
I actually did use this(xinerama), but found it extremely annoying since alot of applications and browsers etc either opened in the middle of the 2 screens(half on each screen) or would open from the one screen and STRETCH across most or all of both screens. I like to have them set up seperately as linux almosts works as if each screen is a different user. I have seperate taskbars(panels) and can set up each monitor exactly as I wish. One drawback to using the monitors seperately, if you open a program on one monitor, it does not look as though you can drag it onto the other monitor (it wraps around and comes back out on the same monitor, other side) whereas I could move apps between monitors in the other mode. On a side note, does anyone use the Konqueror web browser? It is really sweet, but seems to crash all the time. I was wondering if the crashing was it or me.. hehehe, it seems to crash alot more often on the radeon screen than on the sis screen. Hmmm... anyhow... I am off to find that config file!

Thanks,
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OK, found the config. Worked great. You are the man. I was looking at the link you gave me and that enlightenment GUI looks great. It seems to fix alot of the things I didnt like about the xinerama setup. The lack of seperate resolutions was something I was pissy about too...just forgot earlier. I usually use 3 monitors, I am using 2 now as one of them died. I hope I don't run into the problems he had with his 3 monitors. I think I got luck with the 2 monitors, cause my second monitor is left of my primary. Oh well. ONWARD!

Bot
 
Out of curiosity, which SiS and Radeon are you using? I have the G400 but haven't seen setups with the SiS and Radeon. Are you using pure PCI or PCI+AGP combo or on-board+PCI/AGP or what?

cl
 
I am using a Sis6326 PCI and a AGP Radeon. The reason you probably don't see this much is the Sis refuses to be secondary card. If it is initialize second or third in the bios, the drivers won't work. They don't seems to support multi-monitor, but they still work as long as they are primary and another card(s) are after it. I got around this in w2k because it didn't care which was primary in the bios, you could select your primary from the desktop. The third card is a GeForceMX, but I broke a pin off of the monitor plug (duh) and haven't gotten around to getting a new monitor. I will soon though, having only 2 monitors is annoying as hell.

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