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Old 01-13-2006, 12:06 PM   #1
KevinMeyer
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Nvidia GeForce4 MX multihead not working suse9.1


Hello Guys,
I am having problems getting my second monitor to function...:-[
Dual Booting winXP also suse9.1
I go to SaX2 try to enable the multihead but get the following -->>Your System does not provide more than one graphics device...
On my windows booting both screens work fine on KDE no Luck :-[
Any suggestions ?





 
Old 01-13-2006, 01:14 PM   #2
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You are going to have to hack on your xorg.conf file. Does your card have Twin-view? If so it is actually quite easy to set up. You can use my xorg.conf as an example:

http://badcomputer.org/unix/xorg.conf

This file uses twinview to create a single desktop that spans both monitors at 1280x1024 each. There is extensive docs on setting up twinview near the end of the nVidia kernel driver README file.

If your card doesn't have twinview, you will have to use xinerama.
 
Old 01-18-2006, 11:08 AM   #3
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MultiHead Nvidia Problem Resolved :-]

Bulliver,

Thanx for your help :-]
Multihead enabled and working fine. *yipee*:P
I had to edit my XF86Config file from my /etc/X11>
It is working fine using Xinerama... Have not yet had time to get into the twinview part of it... :-} But deff soon!
Also I have included my XF86Config file(only the display part). Any further comments welcome.

Section "Monitor"
DisplaySize 320 240
HorizSync 31-64
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
ModelName "1280X1024@60HZ"
Option "DPMS"
VendorName "--> VESA"
VertRefresh 50-60
UseModes "Modes[0]"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
DisplaySize 320 240
HorizSync 31-64
Identifier "Monitor[1]"
ModelName "1280X1024@60HZ"
Option "DPMS"
VendorName "--> VESA"
VertRefresh 50-60
UseModes "Modes[1]"
EndSection


Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
Modeline "1280x1024" 102.62 1280 1312 1472 1632 1024 1028 1032 1048 -HSync -VSync
EndSection

Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[1]"
Modeline "1280x1024" 102.62 1280 1312 1472 1632 1024 1028 1032 1048 -HSync -VSync
EndSection


Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection

Device "Device[0]"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
Device "Device[1]"
Identifier "Screen[1]"
Monitor "Monitor[1]"
EndSection


Section "Device"
BoardName "0x01f0"
BusID "2:0:0"
Driver "nvidia"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Screen 0
Option "Rotate" "off"
VendorName "NVidia"
EndSection

Section "Device"
BoardName "0x01f0"
BusID "2:0:0"
Driver "nvidia"
Identifier "Device[1]"
Screen 1
Option "Rotate" "off"
VendorName "NVidia"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
Option "Clone" "off"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
Screen "Screen[0]"
Screen "Screen[1]" RightOf "Screen[0]"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection
 
Old 01-18-2006, 02:52 PM   #4
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KevinMeyer
Bulliver,

Thanx for your help :-]
Multihead enabled and working fine. *yipee*:P
I had to edit my XF86Config file from my /etc/X11>
It is working fine using Xinerama... Have not yet had time to get into the twinview part of it... :-} But deff soon!
Also I have included my XF86Config file(only the display part). Any further comments welcome.
Well the refresh rates seems extremely low for the monitors you may want to look in the manuals or do a Google search and see if you can find the proper values this is unless you have dual LCD's then they look reasonable. Also I doubt the UseModes is really necessary the X server should be able to figure that out on its own. You may want to look into the /var/log/XFree86.0.log to see what it tells you about the monitors you may be able to get the refresh rates from the auto-detection in there as well.

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Section "Monitor"
DisplaySize 320 240
HorizSync 31-64
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
ModelName "1280X1024@60HZ"
Option "DPMS"
VendorName "--> VESA"
VertRefresh 50-60
UseModes "Modes[0]"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
DisplaySize 320 240
HorizSync 31-64
Identifier "Monitor[1]"
ModelName "1280X1024@60HZ"
Option "DPMS"
VendorName "--> VESA"
VertRefresh 50-60
UseModes "Modes[1]"
EndSection
 
  


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