Good day,
I tried Googling around and found some stuff but not yet a good guide that tells me how to configure my setup so I am asking here before I try things, reboot and then my display is black or other terrible stuff.
Currently I have a “10-monitor.conf” with the following content:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DisplayPort-1"
Option "PreferredMode" "2560x1440"
Option "Position" "0 0"
Option "Rotate" "left"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DisplayPort-0"
Option "PreferredMode" "2560x1440"
Option "Position" "1440 521"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "HDMI-A-0"
Option "PreferredMode" "3840x2160"
Option "Position" "4000 521"
EndSection
My “DisplayPort” monitors are FreeSync and I am going to give that another try, but for FreeSync to work, I need to have “HDMI-A-0” on a seperate x-server.
I need “HDMI-A-0” to work sinds that is my A/V reciever and need that connected so I can hear audio.
So, I basically want the same setup as earlier but with “HDMI-A-0” on a seperate x-server.
I have thrown together the following what I want to add to the above code:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "FreeSync Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Monitor "DisplayPort-1"
Option "RightOf" "Screen0"
DefaultDepth 24
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Monitor "HDMI-A-0"
Option "RightOf" "Screen0"
DefaultDepth 24
EndSection
My question is, how can I add my second monitor to “Screen0”? And how can I tell it how to position them?
Right now on my normal setup I have a script that positions the monitors correctly and that is:
xrandr --output DisplayPort-1 --mode 2560x1440 --pos 0x0 --rotate left -r 120.00 --output DisplayPort-0 --primary --mode 2560x1440 --pos 1440x521 --rotate normal -r 120.00 --output HDMI-A-0 --mode 3840x2160 --pos 4000x521 --rotate normal -r 60.00
So, in general my question is “simple”, keep using what I have put have “HDMI-A-0” on a seperate X so it with interfere with my 2 main monitors so I can use FreeSync and have my audio played through “HDMI-A-0” and sometimes also movies, but I did found information how to start a application on a seperate X screen.
Righ now I need a good guide or advice that tells me what did I do right and what did I mess up.
I hope someone has some more info about this, because with Google I have a hard time finding good guides how to set it up.