2008.11.05

[InHabitat]

by Evelyn Lee

The Wat Pa Maha Chedio Kaew temple has found a way to bottle-up Nirvana, literally. The temple, which sits in Thailand's Sisaket province, roughly 370 miles northeast of Bangkok is made of more than a million recycled glass bottles. True to its nickname, "Wat Lan Kuad" or "Temple of Million Bottles" features glass bottles throughout the premises of the temple, including the crematorium, surrounding shelters, and yes - even the toilets. There's an estimated 1.5 million recycled bottles built into the temple, and as you might have guessed, they are committed to recycling more. After all, the more bottles they get, the more buildings they are able to construct...

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I had my i810 driver-based Intel 915GM laptop working with dual head and xinerama (but not with DRI at the same time) before, but after some upgrades it no longer worked. This is because X.org has completely changed things, and your xorg.conf should be completely different. New intel driver, new settings, everything...

dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

... The ServerLayout now is simple, no information on how the screen works there. The ONE line you have to add to get multi head working is to the subsection "Display" under "Screen":

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Default Screen"
        Device "Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller"
        Monitor "Generic Monitor"
        DefaultDepth 24
        SubSection "Display"
                Modes "1280x1024" "1280x800"
                Virtual 2048 2048
        EndSubSection
EndSection

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xrandr —output LVDS —auto —output VGA —auto —below LVDS

That I run after I start. If you don't want to type this every time, you should be able to put it in your .xinitrc file...

Hope some of this info/opinion helps.

x.org-xinerama-and-randr