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Re: Fedora 9 X dual screen problems



 Dan Ritter wrote: 
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:26:13AM -0400, David Kramer wrote: 
>> When I was running F8, I was able to sucessfully hook up the external 
>> video port to my Sony Bravia TV's PC port. It does 1380x768. This is 
>> essential functionality for me, so I can watch MythTV on the TV while 
>> using my internal screen for email/web/etc. I used separate Xs, not 
>> TwinView or Xinerama (I experimented with those, but windows would 
>> launch on the TV when it wasn't hooked up, so I couldn't get to them). 
>> And all was right in the world 
>> 
>> After I loaded F9, I'm not able to get the TV to display anything. I see 
>> a crosshatch pattern over the screen, and if I move the mouse to that 
>> screen, I see the cursor, but I can't right click or left click. The 
>> logs are below. I even tried the exact xorg.conf from F8, and that 
>> didn't work either. 
> 
> Sounds like you don't have a window manager running on your 
> second X session. Try: 
> 
> DISPLAY=:1 metacity & 


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