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Hi,
I've been through a lot of the related forums and found a wealth of great info, but I can't seem to get my setup to work. I have a dual head GF4 PCI and a ATI 7200 for video cards. I was able to configure the 3 using the TwinView option on the Nvidia card, but thats not quite what I wanted. I have 2 smaller monitors on either side of my middle monitor. The Nvidia card controls the 2 small ones and the ATI the big one. So, Im trying to setup each output on the Nvidia as a display in X. When I try to start X with the following XF86Config file I get this warning and then an error. Thanks in advance for your help/
(II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "Card1".
(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:0) found
(--) Chipset ATI Radeon QD (AGP) found ...
(II) Loading sub module "radeon"
(II) LoadModule: "radeon"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o
(II) Module radeon: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 4.0.1
Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(EE) Screen 1 deleted because of no matching config section.
And here is my XF86Config file
# XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86
Ok, got it figured out now. The "Screen" inside the nvidia device declare is part of the device and doesn't refer to the screen sections. I removed my call to screen2 inside the ATI device declare and everything work half way right. I had to play with the screen names, and re-order the lay. It all works great now. I've put my entire XF86Config file below for the next guy that runs up on this.
Distribution: Ubuntu "Hoary" - The best distro around by a long shot.
Posts: 116
Rep:
You don't run into any problems running two monitors off the nVidia card, eh? When I tried it it had a problem loading the driver for some reason. Could be that I never tried with both using the nvidia driver though (I tried both using nv and one using nv the other using nvidia), I'll have to give that a try.
If you only have to monitors, you will probably be better setting the card up to use TwinView. Thats where the 2 monitors appear to be one large screen to X. It never knows that there are two monitors. If you configure it like mine, then you will have two screens in X. The biggest disadvantage to this is that you can't drag windows between the monitors, unless you use Xinerama. I can email you my XF86Config file for when I had mine setup that way if you get stuck. That and you will need to get the latest driver off Nvidia's site. Its real easy to setup, and fully supports all of the features on the card.
Distribution: Ubuntu "Hoary" - The best distro around by a long shot.
Posts: 116
Rep:
Alright, I looked up how to setup TwinView, and edited my XF86Config file accordingly. However, when I go to start X, it only shows up on my main monitor. I've tried various settings and such, and I can't get it to work any way I try.
I also tried the multiheading again, but it gives me an "entity already in use" error and fails.
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