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+ <B>Florian Hubold</B>
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+ <I>Wed Dec 28 19:33:28 CET 2011</I>
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+<PRE>Am 28.12.2011 18:33, schrieb John:
+&gt;<i> On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:48:13 -0500
+</I>&gt;<i> TJ wrote:
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Hmmm. I sent this earlier, but it's not showing yet, so I guess it was
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> lost somewhere. If not, and I'm just not seeing it, please forgive the
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> duplicate posting...
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Currently using a Samsung P2350 1920x1080 monitor with the DVI port of
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> an AGP 8x nVidia Geforce 6200OC video card from BFG. I'm using the
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> proprietary driver from the repositories, and everything is working
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> great.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> My nephew has a spare 19-inch flatscreen monitor, make, model, and
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> resolution unknown to me, that he is willing to give to me to get it out
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> of his house. I am considering connecting this to the D-sub port of the
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> card as the second monitor, but in portrait mode. Not sure what I'd use
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> it for, but the idea sounds intriguing.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Two questions:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> 1. Is this possible in Mageia?
+</I>&gt;<i> Definitely :-) However there are a few 'gothas' to be aware of.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> 2. How difficult is it?
+</I>&gt;<i> It's not too hard, you have to use the proprietry drivers for your video
+</I>&gt;<i> card. You have to expect to a few (possibly many) reboots before you get
+</I>&gt;<i> it running the way you want.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I have only done this with Nvidia hardware, I don't know about others.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I suggest you obtain the the actual drivers for you card from Nvidia as a
+</I>&gt;<i> fallback. (I don't need to use them at present but have in past)
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> As in every thing do make sure you backup your /etc/X11/xorg.conf BEFORE
+</I>&gt;<i> you start - it's a real pain to have to restart your video configuration
+</I>&gt;<i> if you mess up :-)
+</I>Actually not true anymore. drakx11 makes backups, and you can also safely
+remove it and start without, or let drakx11 recreate it from scratch. This only
+applies if you are starting with an already-customized xorg.conf, which is
+more an exception than the norm ;)
+&gt;<i> Be aware that KDE and Gnome behave differently in this area. KDE 4.6 in
+</I>&gt;<i> Mageia 1 does not support separate (independant) desktops, Gnome does sort
+</I>&gt;<i> of, but it's messy getting it to work. Independant desktops DOES work in
+</I>&gt;<i> current cauldron.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> John (JohnR)
+</I>&gt;<i>
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