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List:       suse-xfree86
Subject:    Re: [suse-xfree86] dual head + additional single head config
From:       Christoph Fauck <christoph.fauck () fauck ! info>
Date:       2006-11-09 21:20:18
Message-ID: 200611092220.22270.christoph.fauck () fauck ! info
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Hey, thank you.

I bought a third graphic adapter and now it works fine.

Christoph

Am Mittwoch, 8. November 2006 22:26 schrieb jorge:
> My setup is the opposite of yours with two monitors on proprietary ATI
> (fglrx) driver and one on open source (nv) nVidia. Here are a few
> suggestions which may or may not help.
>
> Have you tried fglrx? Maybe it will play nicer with the nVidia driver.
>
> Is there any way to let X manage the two monitors on the nVidia directly?
> That is to say two "Device" sections for the nVidia. This is how fglrx
> works. What might be happening is X is getting confused because it has 3
> monitors but thinks there are only 2.
>
> Have you tested with one monitor on the nVidia and one on the ATI? What are
> the results? That might give you some hints as to the problem.
>
> Good luck, it took me several days to get my configuration working.
>
> --jorge
>
> On Wednesday 08 November 2006 11:11, Christoph Fauck wrote:
> > Hi, everybody.
> >
> > I've problems with my dual head configuration. I added a second grafics
> > adapter and a third monitor and now my existing dual head configuration
> > yarns. After powering up KDE I will get a behave desktop on the 17"
> > monitor. The dual head config was crashed. I will get a 1280x25?? desktop
> > over both
>
> 19"
>
> > monitors and overlapped something lika a 1024x768 desktop in the left
> > upper corner with the kicker bar.
> >
> > After comment out the line
> >     Screen         "RadeonScreen" RightOf "NVidiaScreen"
> > I will get a working dual head config with both 19" monitors.
> >
> > Does anybody have experiences or could give me a tipp, whats being wrong?
> >
> > Thanks and best regards,
> > Christoph
> >
> >
> > My Setup:
> >
> > First graphics adapter:		GeForce 6600/GeForce 6600 GT
> > Driver:						commercial NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8762-pkg1
> > Config:						Dual head with two 19" monitors
> >
> > Second graphics adapter:		Radeon 7000 VE
> > Driver:						SuSE 10.1 radeon
> > Config:						Single 17" monitor
> >
> > My xorg.conf:
> >
> > Section "ServerLayout"
> >     Identifier     "Layout[all]"
> >     Screen         "NVidiaScreen" 0 0
> >     Screen         "RadeonScreen" RightOf "NVidiaScreen"
> >     InputDevice    "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
> >     InputDevice    "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
> >     Option         "Clone" "off"
> >     Option         "Xinerama" "off"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Files"
> >     InputDevices      "/dev/gpmdata"
> >     InputDevices      "/dev/input/mice"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni:unscaled"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/Type1"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
> >     FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xtest"
> >     FontPath        "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Module"
> >     Load           "dbe"
> >     Load           "type1"
> >     Load           "freetype"
> >     Load           "extmod"
> >     Load           "glx"
> >     Load           "v4l"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "ServerFlags"
> >     Option         "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >     Identifier     "Keyboard[0]"
> >     Driver         "kbd"
> >     Option         "Protocol" "Standard"
> >     Option         "XkbLayout" "de"
> >     Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
> >     Option         "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> >     Option         "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >     Identifier     "Mouse[1]"
> >     Driver         "mouse"
> >     Option         "Buttons" "5"
> >     Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> >     Option         "Name" "Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse"
> >     Option         "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
> >     Option         "Vendor" "Sysp"
> >     Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Monitor"
> >     Identifier     "NVidiaMonitor"
> >     VendorName     "SAM"
> >     ModelName      "SAMSUNG SYNCMASTER"
> > #    Option         "DPMS"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Monitor"
> >     Identifier     "RadeonMonitor"
> >     VendorName     "LGP"
> >     ModelName      "LCD MONITOR"
> > #    Option         "DPMS"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Device"
> >     Identifier     "NVidiaDevice"
> >     Driver         "nvidia"
> >     VendorName     "NVidia"
> >     BoardName      "GeForce 6600/GeForce 6600 GT"
> >     BusId          "PCI:01:00:0"
> >     Option         "TwinView"
> >     Option         "TwinViewOrientation" "LeftOf"
> >     Option         "Metamodes" "1280x1024,1280x1024"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Device"
> >     Identifier     "RadeonDevice"
> >     Driver         "radeon"
> >     VendorName     "Radeon"
> >     BoardName      "Radeon 7000 VE"
> >     BusId          "PCI:00:13:0"
> >     Option         "BusType" "PCI"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Screen"
> >     Identifier     "NVidiaScreen"
> >     Device         "NVidiaDevice"
> >     Monitor        "NVidiaMonitor"
> >     DefaultDepth    24
> >     Option         "HWCursor" "off"
> >     SubSection     "Display"
> >         Depth       24
> >         Modes      "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600"
> >     EndSubSection
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Screen"
> >     Identifier     "RadeonScreen"
> >     Device         "RadeonDevice"
> >     Monitor        "RadeonMonitor"
> >     DefaultDepth   16
> >     Option         "HWCursor" "off"
> >     Option         "NoInt10"  "off"
> >     SubSection     "Display"
> >         Depth       16
> >         Modes      "1024x768" "800x600"
> >     EndSubSection
> > EndSection

-- 
Windows is not the answer, it's the question and the answer is NO.

Christoph Fauck
Augenriedstrasse 54
72800 Eningen unter Achalm

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