LOCKUP: GF4-MultiScreen kills machine with X

[Matthew Carpenter]

Bugger on the Impress.  I'm looking to get this same machine for my church but one screen will drive the projector, which will be using Impress...  Or Win/MSO

What resolution are you running?  My setup uses two different resolutions (1280x1024 for my CRT and 800x600 for the TV), which is the real reason I am running like I am.  I'd rather have one big desktop, but I'd also not want to run 800x600 on my CRT.  1280x1024 isn't big enough for my taste :)

As for my setup, I'm having difficulties doing ANYTHING which dorks with X (aside from CTRL-ALT-+ or -).  If I kill X with <CTRL-ALT-BkSpc> the maching locks.  If I switch to a text VC, the machine locks.  If I logout, the machine locks.  This has only been happening since I started running in two-screen mode.  I may try the TwinView (which is how NVidia calls it) to see if this clears up.  There are also a TON of settings which I don't know much about which may solve it as well :(

Thanks again!
Matt


On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:46:28 -0700
Ian Stephen <ianstepn at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Maximizing a window fits it to whichever physical display it is in.  
> 
> Impress presentations misbehave a bit though.  I have to set their
> slideshow type to "window".  If the type is left as "default" they span
> both monitors.
> 
> I can drag maximized windows from one monitor to the other.  Find it
> annoying now when I'm on an MS Windows machine and have to un-maximize
> before I can drag a window.
> --