Mulitple video cards in AccerPower s285
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I have AccerPower s285 computerwith 2GB of RAM, 80GB drive, running ubuntu 9.04.I understand it's an old box but this will be fine as long I can get that to work with ubuntu 9.04. I want to put couple of graphic cards into it for multiple displays and I have few problems. I hope I can find some suggestions or answers to my problems here. This mobo has 3 PCI slots so I thought that maybe I can add 2 older cards (with dual outputs - vga and hdmi): Radeon 9250 and one nVidia GeForce 6200 but for some reason things are not working as I thought they would be :). I tried dozen of things in xorg.conf file but none of them seem to work, so for now I have 1 nVidia added, 1 Radeon, my power suppply is 650W kingwin. Here's my lspci output: Code:
0:09.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01) Here's my xorg.conf file: Code:
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file) Thank you very much!! |
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You may want to run a more stable version of Ubuntu- https://help.ubuntu.com/ Quote:
I am not the best with hardware issues but it may be that you need to install the drivers for those cards. I know with my brand new Radeon Graphic's card (eventho it was plugged into the VGA to the monitor) I didn't have an improvement in graphical appearance until I installed the AMD driver. Quote:
I had a 300 watt power supply but my new card required at least a 650 watt power supply-- Quote:
Reading this in your terminal might help you to better understand the xorg.conf-- Quote:
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Ouch, nVidia + ATI GPUs, and an onboard SiS video chip as well?
Its possible, I think, but its going to be a huge amount of work. How on earth did you make that xorg.conf file? Its full of wrong ('radeon' driver will not work with a nVidia card, 3 screen '3' listed, etc.) |
I don't know if this is necessary, but when I looked into multiple displays a year or two ago, people were recommending using several identical graphics cards rather than mixing different types. I don't know of any reason why different types wouldn't work, though - but I'd be interested to know for sure either way as my experiments didn't get very far. :o
I did find that I couldn't use the onboard graphics card at the same time as an AGP card, though - the motherboard only seemed to be capable of supporting one at a time, although different cards in AGP + PCI was ok. |
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aticonfig -adapter=all --initial The above command worked just fine for me. I would just add the appropriate nvidia command at the beginning or run the nvidia equivalent command right afterwards.... it's worth a shot. |
It wont help with kabu3s system at all.
aticonfig is for fglrx (closed source drivers) and ati/amd GPUs only. The Radeon 9250 is not supported by fglrx on most current distros, and even if it was supported, it wont help find the nVidia GPU or SiS video chip. |
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This is why we love cascade. You don't even need wiki with him around. |
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I'm wondering what the work intails and the amount of effort to achieve this is? We will have to learn from him:- |
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