dual video card/monitor howto?

zoomtard · n00b Joined: 31 May 2002 Posts: 32

I've been looking high and low for some sort of guide or HOWTO for X w/ multi video cards/monitors. Unfortunately, I found nothing related to my issue. I have an on-board Matrox G200 AGP and a Trident PCI card. I know to look in /proc for the busID of the pci video card and to use startx -- +xinerama but my problem stems from the config file. Can someone give me some pointers on how to edit the config file so that it accomodates both video cards and both monitors? Also, is it necessary to, for lack of a better word, bind a specific monitor to a specific video card?

remne · n00b Joined: 30 Aug 2002 Posts: 23

have you tried to look in an XFree / XF86Config howto?..
:-O

simcop2387 · Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2002 11:57 pm Post subject:

yes you'll need to bind the monitors to the video card, i'll post up a version that you can use as an example, i did this with XF86 4.2 and a Voodoo 4 with an old ATI i had, just for fun once, got quite used to the large screen.

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arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

You mean you can just slap in another video card onto a pci slot and use both the agp and pci cards at the same time on 2 monitors?
(I've read a little about it, never thought about it much, and didn't know much about it, or how it worked)

netghost · n00b Joined: 04 Jul 2002 Posts: 12

squanto · Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 4:37 am Post subject:

There was an article about how to do this in Linux Journal, like a month or two ago, I don't have the issue here with me, but they recommended making your screen and monitor and cards all named in a similar fasion so you would have an easier time setting up.
And they told how if you run gnome on your main display that you would have to start gnome on the other display and then your dual monitors would work like they do on mac os or on windows, while if you run kde on both that maximized windows would span both monitors.
Just putting my $0.02 in, maybe help someone out with guis?

Andrew

nempo · Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 11:29 am Post subject:

You should read the xinerama howto, It helped me alot when I sat up a tripple-head system :0

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO.html

mallchin · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 5:58 pm Post subject: triple-head

WhiteMagic · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Posts: 18

You will have to setup correctly your 2 graphic cards in your Xfree configfile. This can be a little bit of try&error.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=58654&highlight=ati+dual+monitor
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=24116&highlight=ati+dual+head+monitor

You can have a look at those threads they helped me. Yes they are related to Radeons but I think there was a link whic was usefull mor wiedly.