Three monitors and repainting...

Alexander Gottwald Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
Thu May 27 20:20:00 GMT 2004


Henrik Schmiediche wrote:

> where 2 is the primary monitor (desktop) and 3 is driven by a old PCI based
> VGA card. 1 & 2 are driven by the same AGP card. When I start an xterm, it
> always loads on monitor 1 and everything seems to work. When I move that
> xterm to monitors 2 or 3 it stops repainting (goes white).
>
> Is this a known problem? Alternatively, does anyone have this configuration
> working, so I know the fault is my setup, not cygwin? Is there a work
> around?
>
> Another data point: If I disable monitor 3 and start XWin on multiple
> monitors, it works and both monitors 1 & 2. If I then enable monitor 3, it
> continues to work on 1 & 2, but not 3. If I start Xwin with all three
> monitors enabled, only monitor 1 repainting works.

Hm, This is an unusual configuration. I doubt someone has tried that before.
Anyway, I'll take a look and see if I can find some hints what's wrong.

bye
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