xenth
January 14, 2010, 1:33pm
#1
Im using opensuse 11.2 X64 with KDE and ati drivers.
I’ve used the 1-click installer provided for KDE and compiz is installed.
Anyone point me in the right direction, there’s lots of information to be found but it’s either obsolete or confusing
Xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 1360 0
Screen "amdcccle-Screen[1]-1" 0 282
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "Module"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "0-DFP1"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1680x1050"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "0 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "0-DFP2"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1360x768"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "0 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection
Section "Device"
#BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "Monitor-DFP1" "0-DFP1"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "amdcccle-Device[1]-1"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "Monitor-DFP2" "0-DFP2"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Virtual 3600 3600
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "amdcccle-Screen[1]-1"
Device "amdcccle-Device[1]-1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Tia
If you’re using KDE4 you don’t need Compiz to get “transparency and the likes”. It’s built into KDE with Kwin.
knurpht
January 14, 2010, 1:50pm
#3
Looks like this is missing, put it at the bottom of xorg.conf:
Section “Extensions”
Edit: just saw gminnerup’s post. He’s right, you don’t need compiz. But for the desktop effects in KDE4 you do need the above in your xorg.conf
xenth
January 14, 2010, 2:10pm
#4
Knurpht:
Looks like this is missing, put it at the bottom of xorg.conf:
Section “Extensions”
Edit: just saw gminnerup’s post. He’s right, you don’t need compiz. But for the desktop effects in KDE4 you do need the above in your xorg.conf
I’ve removed compiz.
Here’s thew new xorg.conf, is this right?
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 1360 0
Screen "amdcccle-Screen[1]-1" 0 282
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "Module"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "0-DFP1"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1680x1050"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "0 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "0-DFP2"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1360x768"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "0 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection
Section "Device"
#BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "Monitor-DFP1" "0-DFP1"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "amdcccle-Device[1]-1"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "Monitor-DFP2" "0-DFP2"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Virtual 3600 3600
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "amdcccle-Screen[1]-1"
Device "amdcccle-Device[1]-1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "enable"
EndSection
Desktop effects says the following,
Compositing is not supported on your system.
Thanks so far guys
knurpht
January 14, 2010, 2:24pm
#5
Something must be wrong in the xorg.conf
In openSUSE 11.2 you don’t need an xorg.conf anymore. Rename it, reboot and see how the system does by itself
Please also post output of:
rpm -qa | grep kernel-
You’ve got Xinerama “on”. Xinerama disables compositing. Well, at least on my NVIDIA setup, maybe it’s different with ATI, I can’t tell.
xenth
January 22, 2010, 3:30pm
#7
Knurpht:
Something must be wrong in the xorg.conf
In openSUSE 11.2 you don’t need an xorg.conf anymore. Rename it, reboot and see how the system does by itself
Please also post output of:
rpm -qa | grep kernel-
Hi, I think I still need xorg.conf, after renaming it and restarting X I just get a blinking black screen lol!
Here’s the output you requested, thanks for replying
baas@werkstation:~> rpm -qa | grep kernel
linux-kernel-headers-2.6.31-3.4.noarch
kernel-desktop-2.6.31.8-0.1.1.x86_64
baas@werkstation:~> rpm -qa | grep xorg
xorg-x11-libxcb-7.4-11.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libSM-7.4-7.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libXext-7.4-7.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-7.4-61.63.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libXext-32bit-7.4-7.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libX11-7.4-12.3.x86_64
xorg-x11-fonts-core-7.4-6.3.noarch
xorg-x11-libXprintUtil-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-Xvnc-7.4-61.63.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libXau-32bit-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libXmu-32bit-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libXp-32bit-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libX11-ccache-7.4-2.4.x86_64
xorg-x11-libXfixes-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libXv-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libs-7.4-25.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-7.4-35.3.x86_64
xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd-1.3.0_20091026_8b89b9-1.1.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libICE-32bit-7.4-7.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libs-32bit-7.4-25.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libXt-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libXrender-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libXmu-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libfontenc-32bit-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libSM-32bit-7.4-7.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libXpm-32bit-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libXrender-32bit-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-driver-video-7.4-87.90.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libICE-7.4-7.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-driver-input-7.4-39.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-fonts-7.4-6.3.noarch
xorg-x11-libX11-32bit-7.4-12.3.x86_64
xorg-x11-libXt-32bit-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libXau-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libfontenc-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libXp-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-xauth-7.4-35.3.x86_64
xorg-x11-libxcb-32bit-7.4-11.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libXfixes-32bit-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libXprintUtil-32bit-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libXdmcp-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libxkbfile-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libXpm-7.4-6.1.x86_64
xorg-x11-libxkbfile-32bit-7.4-6.1.x86_64
baas@werkstation:~> lsmod | grep fglrx
fglrx 2279288 47
baas@werkstation:~> su -c 'find / -name fglrx* -print'
Password:
/proc/irq/29/fglrx[0]@PCI:1:0:0
/lib/modules/2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop/weak-updates/updates/fglrx.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop/updates/fglrx.ko
/sys/bus/pci/drivers/fglrx_pci
/sys/module/fglrx
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
/usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so
/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
/usr/include/X11/extensions/fglrx_gamma.h
/usr/share/pixmaps/fglrx.png
/usr/share/doc/packages/fglrx
/usr/share/doc/packages/fglrx/fglrx_sample_source.tgz
/usr/bin/fglrx_xgamma
/usr/bin/fglrxinfo
find: `/home/baas/.gvfs': Permission denied
You’ve got Xinerama “on”. Xinerama disables compositing. Well, at least on my NVIDIA setup, maybe it’s different with ATI, I can’t tell.
Heya, if I remove that line from xorg.conf my secondary display can’t be used anymore, please advise
Sorry for slow reply guys.
xenth:
Heya, if I remove that line from xorg.conf my secondary display can’t be used anymore, please advise
Sorry for slow reply guys.
There’s two methods, as far as I know, of extending one desktop over two screens: Twinview, which is NVDIA only so you can’t use it, or Xinerama. Xinerama, again AFAIK, disables compositing. If you disable Xinerama, there’s only one desktop per monitor and in order to get two, now separate, desktops on the two monitors you have two enable two Xwindows. That way, you can move the mouse pointer from one to the other but not the windows, and applications will start wherever you launch them.
xenth
January 23, 2010, 3:41pm
#9
That doesn’t sound like something I want
expat1
April 4, 2010, 6:17am
#10
Madness with X----
I also have the same problem i.e. compositing not supported and get the XComposite/XDamage messages.
System here is an Intel 975 motherboard, 2 GB RAM 2 ea NVidia GeForce 8500 GT’s PCIe. The two cards are driving 3 Samsung 204B monitors. I am under the impression that I need to use separate X screens since there are more than 2 monitors and 2 different graphics cards. Additionally the desktop is spread across all three monitors, with the taskbar docked on the left edge of the left most monitor. Nice large desktop because this machine is used in a semi production environment.
I get a little more confused about where 11.2 is the more I read, about how under KDE 4.4. the ongoing multi monitor support and functionality and so forth.
Im running KDE 4.3.5.011. Nvidia package is gfx-g02-kmp-desktop 190.53_2.6.31.5_0.1-8.1. kernel module and the graphics driver version 190.53-9.1.
Now before, under SUSe 10.3 one used to have to edit the /etc/sysconfig file to decide which windows manager to use and get the effects i.e. rotating cube, wobblies &c. Now it seems that’s no longer necessary. Additionally compositing is enabled in my xorg.conf file.
Lets see.
kernel-desktop-2.6.31.12-0.2.1.x86_64
linux-r7d9:/home/carr # rpm -qa | grep xorg
lsmod | grep fglrx yields nothing
Several questions…is it necessary to use Xinerama for more than 2 monitors? With more than 2 monitors is compositing and other desktop effects impossible using my configuration??
Any advice or info would be appreciated.
Thanks for this thread… something Im also dealing with.
regards
