LOCKUP: GF4-MultiScreen kills machine with X

[Ian Stephen]

On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 17:57, Matthew Carpenter wrote:

> What resolution are you running?

Both 1024x768, though your post reminded me of ctrl-alt-+ & -, which
work for the one that has more than one mode specified in XF86Config-4
under screen section

My setup uses two different resolutions
(1280x1024 for my CRT and 800x600 for the TV)

TV? Television?  Is it the TV out that will run the projector?  Is that
common with projectors? (I need to use one this fall and have never even
seen one up close yet!)

> I'd rather have one big desktop, but I'd also not want to run 800x600 on my CRT.

The TV (projector?) can't do greater than 800x600?

> <CTRL-ALT-BkSpc>, switch to a text VC,If I logout, the machine locks.
> This has only been happening since I started running in two-screen mode.

Horrors!  These work fine for me aside from once in a blue screen ..
er..blue moon, when I log out it freezes.  I think its something
hardware related though 'cause the machine is flakey under Win98 (and
worse) too.  Doesn't happen often enough to make me track down the
cause.

> 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 :(
> 
If your TwinView works like my setup you may also have to run Impress
with slideshow type 'window', which I think you will find is
unsatisfactory for field use 'cause it displays Impress' menus etc the
whole time.

Wish I had some helpful suggestions, but scrolling thru my XF86Config-4
doesn't spark any ideas.  Google?

-- 
Ian Stephen <ianstepn at shaw.ca>