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+ | ===Project 4 - Video Wall! === | ||
+ | <WRAP round box> | ||
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+ | - Install the same operating system on both machenes. Setup intstallation, | ||
+ | ==== The following line where done to both systems ==== | ||
+ | - Update. | ||
+ | - ' | ||
+ | - Install video driver. We used; **wget http:// | ||
+ | * **chmod 777 nvidia173.run** ; to compile the driver | ||
+ | * .**/ | ||
+ | * Using the dpkg -l | grep nvidia we found all the nvidia files we needed too, and installed all files that showed up with aptitude install ________ | ||
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+ | ===== The following line was done to vidwall and scp to vidwall2 ===== | ||
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+ | * In the xorg.config file we needed to edit __N__vidia to //n//vidia, and uncomment NoLogo and TwinView lines. | ||
+ | ' | ||
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+ | - Next we needed to install Fluxbox to have a window manager; ' **aptitude install fluxbox** ' on both systems | ||
+ | * To set the screens to either act verticly or horizantly under the /etc/X11 directory we needed to edit the xorg.conf file on both systems. Under the " | ||
+ | | ||
+ | - Use **xhost +** to enable network communitcations on both machines. | ||
+ | - Use export** DISPLAY=10.80.2.194; | ||
+ | - Installing Xdmx by using **aptitude install xdmx**, on both machenes. (Make sure both machenes are set to the same resolution) | ||
+ | - At this point we where able to launch the fluxbox desktop on both systems. | ||
+ | - Then we created a confiuration file that looked like this. | ||
+ | startx -- / | ||
+ | | ||
+ | - Patch Xdmx. We retrived the new patches from [[https:// | ||
+ | - To patch files and output any errors to an error file, patch -p1 < | ||
+ | - All of those patched files should be in the / | ||
+ | * config, glx, debian, hw, doc, xkb (all of these should be in the zorg-server-1.6.4 directory) | ||
+ | - To compile these dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc | ||
+ | * Remove old files by aptitude remove xdmx (should remove both xdmx and xdmx-tools | ||
+ | * To install new, dpkg -i packagename | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
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+ | At this point we should have had a working system, but we did not. This is what else we tried. | ||
+ | * We tried to download and install " | ||
+ | * in xorg-server-1.6.4/ | ||
+ | * between the line "FIX ME: Handle savng clip region ~" and " | ||
+ | * XRectanle aRect; | ||
+ | * aRect.x = 0; aRect.y = 0; | ||
+ | * Arect.width = 9999 ; | ||
+ | * ARect.height = 9999; | ||
+ | * XRenderSetPictureClipRectangles(dmxScreen-> | ||
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+ | * When trying to fix the bad fonts issue we... | ||
+ | * cd / | ||
+ | * cp fontname fixed.pcf.gz (we chose something that seemed like a ' | ||
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