Re: Dual head initialization

[Aivils S. <ai...@un...>]

On Tre=F0diena, 19. Oktobris 2005 07:27, Joshua Reed wrote:
> YEAH! =A0I finally got a dual head system set up and running with a Matrox
> G450 card.
> My only question is if the issue of framebuffer re-initalization when
> exiting X was ever resolved?
> When I Exit X on the primary head (a mga device) it grabs the frame
> buffer for the secondary head (the fbdev device) =A0A switch to vt8 and
> back to vt7 fixes this, but most of my roommates are not so
> understanding of this quirk.
> is there
> A. =A0A quick fix or scriptwrapper that could cause the neccessary
> framebuffer shifts?
> B. =A0A way to prevent the graphics card form re-initializing?

Tell desktop manager to reinit X without restart. Under gdm gdm.conf
# If you are having trouble with using a single server for a long time and
# want gdm to kill/restart the server, turn this on
AlwaysRestartServer=3Dfalse


> Random note, I found that joymouse was a great alternative to getting a
> new usb mouse for the second head. =A0It uses an existing joystick and
> converts it into a mouse.

You can test a competitor http://www.ltn.lv/~aivils/files/xke-0.03.tar.bz2
It does not have axis converting, remaping - so incomplete.

> I have had a few problems of usb devices=20
> swapping amongst themselves (joystick/keyboards) and it caused havok
> until I changed the --vt5x statement to reflect the new position of the
> keyboard.

It is common trouble for all Linux input layer. I already include
X starting script X1wrap , which create necessary symbolic link
tty -> ftty in runtime.

Aivils