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  From: David Waite <mass@ufl.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 10:09:07 -0400

Re: XGGI user info

----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Barry <bobb@adsme.co.za>


> I've been battling to find command line syntax acceptable to XGGI.
>
> I found that "-targets fbdev:/dev/fb0" works, and "-targets
fbdev:/dev/fb1"
> works, but "-targets fbdev:/dev/fb0:fbdev:/dev/fb1" does not work and
> "-targets (fbdev:/dev/fb0):(fbdev:/dev/fb1)" does not work.  I've tried
many
> other combinations, but can't find an acceptable multihead syntax.
>

XGGI -target fbdev:/dev/fd0 :0. ; XGGIi -target fbdev:/dev/fd1 :1.

(If I remember correctly)

XFree is not built directly for multimonitor support. You have to execute it
multiple times. Unless something happened relatively recently I slept
through

> XGGI seems happy with "-modes 640x480x8", but any other mode option
> causes strange behaviour and stretched or chopped images.

If you do 640x240 you will mess up the screen aspect ratio. I don't even
know if X has the concept of an aspect ratio, so you wind up having things
be twice as long, because it doesn't know that pixels are no longer
rectangular.

Forgive me if I babbled, I'm still asleep (first email of the day ;-))

-David Waite

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