since i'm using linux, softTH probably won't work for me, but i wanted to ask, has anyone here have lfs working on linux with multiple monitors? do you use the monitors for anything but lfs? what's the xorg.conf look like? any crazy software that needs to be installed?

thanks in advance

I managed a DUAL setup under linux, btu I had to disable ALL acceleration. Had to use Xinerama. Lost all effetcs, etc.

X aint that great on multi-monitors.

assuming u have nvidia card:
the standard nvidia settings work for this purposes flawlesslywitouth any hassle of going to xorg.conf and playing around with it

Quote from Stigpt :

I managed a DUAL setup under linux, btu I had to disable ALL acceleration. Had to use Xinerama. Lost all effetcs, etc.

Indeed, this is true for at least Intel graphics and MGA graphics.

Dunno about ATI.

In the case you've got an NVidia-Card install envy or envyng (depending on your linux version and distrubution). It will install the official nvidia-drivers and will offer you a config, that "spans" your display and makes your system think that you are using only one monitor.

Don't know how this will work work together with wine, but give it a shot ;-)

(Don't know if this works with an ATi-Card, did try it a couple of years ago, but don't know if it is possible using current drivers.. just try it).

If not ask google for "linux xorg nvidia/ati span view".

Please tell us if you've found a possible solution!

I'm only aware of having dual screen setups with the ability for a single accelerated window to span them all. When you go from 2 to 3 you need to start using seperate X screens with Xinerama (instead of nvidia's Twinview or MergedFB) to get the ability to span windows. Of course, this kills off any and all ability to run LFS in them, since OpenGL acceleration gets totally hosed. So, you're pretty much limited to dual screen, which if you're using TwinView/MergedFB it'll create one large virtual desktop that the LFS window can span across.

that sucks...

just as well, i'm getting tired of wine's lackluster force feedback support... been pondering setting up a windows box just for lfs... that'd let me use softTH.

any news on triple head @ linux @ wine?

I'm a little bit fed up with SoftTH, so maybe triple-head @ wine works nowadays more flawless?

I tried to hook another screen to my lappy running Arch64 and in worked perfectly fine with nVidia's TwinView. LFS picked up the wide resolution perfectly and I'm convinced it'dwork fine, though I didn't try it.
IIRC ATI's proprietary drivers have such a feature too. It appears to me that multiple screens in Tux behave in pretty much the same way as the span mode in WinXP.

wouldn't know, i stopped using wine for games some time ago.

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I tried to hook another screen to my lappy running Arch64

A little stop here - which method you used to get wine on your arch, 32-bit chroot or bin32-wine from AUR?

Arch devs set up a new "multilib" repository which provides all the 32bit stuff for 64bit systems. I decided to give it a try and simple "pacman -S wine" installed everything I needed except libs for nVidia graphics drivers. Dodgy AUR package is not needed anymore. WINE's been working fine ever since and I really don't see the point of fooling around with chroot. I'd tried in once in gentoo and I didn't find it worth the effort...

Quote from MadCatX :

Arch devs set up a new "multilib" repository which provides all the 32bit stuff for 64bit systems. I decided to give it a try and simple "pacman -S wine" installed everything I needed except libs for nVidia graphics drivers. Dodgy AUR package is not needed anymore. WINE's been working fine ever since and I really don't see the point of fooling around with chroot. I'd tried in once in gentoo and I didn't find it worth the effort...

Strange, using mirrors.kernel.org here and it throws 404 error when updating multilib repo. What mirror you are using?

ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/multilib/os/x86_64/
The mirror I mentioned is Arch linux specific only.

ERIT:
Mirror on kernel.org has following address: http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64/

Quote from MadCatX :

ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/multilib/os/x86_64/
The mirror I mentioned is Arch linux specific only.

ERIT:
Mirror on kernel.org has following address: http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64/

Works nice now, thanks. I accidentally had it typed as multi-lib before