portrait mode monitor (AND)

Brandon Sandrowicz bsandrow-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Fri Nov 16 04:45:31 UTC 2007


On Nov 15, 2007 5:04 PM, tleslie <tleslie-RBVUpeUoHUc at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I have a nvidia 7900 GT dual dual link,
> and
> i put a 30" hp and a 22" samsung on it,
> and running the 30 at 2560x1600 and 22 at 1600x1200 but
>  it wouldn't allow it, said
> desktop width was grater then XXXX (cant remember what it was,
> but i want the 4160 wide.
>
> Now i have the 22" at 1400x1200 (or 1280x1024),
> what i want to do is put the samsung in portrait,
> but the flag (at least what i can see) applies to the
> whole card and put both monitors portrait
> i just want one.
> i want the 30" hp to be  2560x1600 and a portrait samsung beside it
> at 1200x1600, for a nice combo of 3760x1600
>
> not sure if you will run into some of my issues, if your doing quad,
> surely youll run into the width limit it did.
>
> i gotta find out how to split the card (so to speak) and have a seperate
> x.org control section for each card within the card so to speak.
>
> -tl
>
> On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 16:47 -0500, Interlug Lists wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm messing with my monitor setup.  I've been running dual-head for a
> > while and like it.  Now I'm messing with quad-head, and have the
> > basics working.  As part of my fooling around with this stuff I'd like
> > to get the monitors to work in portrait mode.  That is, with the long
> > axis of the monitor vertical.  Mechanically, this s not a problem, but
> > I'm not having any luck with the video driver / configuration for
> > this.
> >
> > Any tips on getting portrait mode to work?  Am I limited to specific
> > drivers / resolutions / specialty cards / invocations and sacrifices?
> >
> > My video cards are ATI radeons:
> > #0 and #1 agp
> >
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AQ [Radeon 9600]
> >
> > #2 and #3 pci
> >
> > 02:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100
> > QY [Radeon 7000/VE]
> >
> > Double bonus points to anybody who can point me towards the way to get
> > CONSOLE / non GUI mode working in portrait mode as well.  ;-)
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Richard.
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I remember reading an article recently about this.  It has something
to do with a limitation of X, IIRC.  Some sort of limitation of
everything needing to fit in some arbitrary "virtual screen" size.

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