How to enable "Twinview" + "rotated one monitor" in redhat?

[terries]

Hi guys,

I got a situation that one 22" monitor and one rotated 90 degree 17" monitor are connected to a 9500GT display card.
My computer have just be installed RedHat Enterprise 6.0 Beta (Santiago), X Window is working fine -application can be dragged between this two screens.

However, after installing NVidia driver (version 195.36.24), I found the screen of the 17" monitor cannot be rotated in Twinview mode - Redhat treat them as one screen, and "option rotate left" rotated whole screen.
In separate X screen mode, my screen of the 17" monitor can be rotated 90 degree, and keep 0 degree for the 22" monitor, but applications cannot be dragged between this two screens.

Did anyone have the experience to enable "Twinview" + "rotated one monitor" in Linux?

BTW, "Desktop Effects" cannot be turned on even this driver was installed. Do you have idea too?


You could have reference my xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" 1680 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Philips 170B2"
HorizSync 30.0 - 82.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "AOC 2217"
HorizSync 31.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 9500 GT"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
Option "Rotate" "Left"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 9500 GT"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Device1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Thanks!

[adamk75]

It is not possible to rotate just one monitor with twinview.

Adam

[terries]

Hi Adam,

Therefore I can only use original driver (come from Redhat), and enjoy "dragging app between two monitor" and "rotating one monitor"?

[adamk75]

I'm not sure what the "original" driver is capable of, only that the nvidia driver can not do what you want.

Adam

[danix]

Separate X screens + Xinerama will allow you to rotate monitors individually, and move windows between monitors.

[terries]

Thank you very much!

I did it!!!