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So I have four monitors set up on Debian Lenny. They all work, but I can't drag windows to any other screens. I can open terminal on one screen and ...
- 02-02-2011 #1Just Joined!
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4 Monitors, but can't drag windows between screens
So I have four monitors set up on Debian Lenny. They all work, but I can't drag windows to any other screens. I can open terminal on one screen and web browser on another fine, but if I try to open web browser on one screen and open it again on another it automatically goes to the same screen it is already open on. I need the four screens for network monitoring through the web browser. So I need one instance of web browser opened on each screen and can't do it. Here is my xorg.conf file. Any advice would be appreciated.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
Screen 2 "Screen2" RightOf "Screen1"
Screen 3 "Screen3" RightOf "Screen2"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "Xinerama" "3"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
# FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
# FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "built-ins"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
Load "i2c"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
# Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "DELL SE178WFP"
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 77.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "DELL SE178WFP"
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 77.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor2"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "DELL SE178WFP"
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 77.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor3"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "DELL SE178WFP"
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 77.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce FX5200"
BusID "PCI:1:2:0"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce FX5200"
BusID "PCI:1:2:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device2"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce FX5200"
BusID "PCI:1:1:0"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device3"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce FX5200"
BusID "PCI:1:1:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce FX 5200"
BusID "PCI:1:2:0"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce FX 5200"
BusID "PCI:1:2:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard2"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce FX 5200"
BusID "PCI:1:1:0"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard3"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce FX 5200"
BusID "PCI:1:1:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
# Option "TwinView" "0"
# Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
# Option "TwinView" "0"
# Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-1"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Videocard1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
# Option "TwinView" "0"
# Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-2"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
Identifier "Screen2"
Device "Videocard2"
Monitor "Monitor2"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
# Option "TwinView" "0"
# Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-3"
# Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
Identifier "Screen3"
Device "Videocard3"
Monitor "Monitor3"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
I know it's a little messy, I've been playing with this for a few days now. I finally got the four screens working this morning. And to make it harder, I've only been working with Linux for three and a half weeks...lol.
- 02-22-2011 #2Just Joined!
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Did you manage to do it?
Did you manage to solve the problems? DOes anybody knows if there is a 4 heads twinview nvidia card?
- 02-22-2011 #3
you should be able to enable twinview for 4 monitors using the nvidia-settings tool, but I can't confirm that since i don't have 4 monitors


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