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Old 01-21-2010, 07:01 PM   #1
Jezzirolk
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Xinerama with an ATI and an NVidia crashes


so this is my first post but i have finally gotten linux installed. i currently have debian installed i have 2 different video cards installed

Radeon X600
GeForce4 MX 4000

i know you are probably saying, why in the world do i have an ATI and an NVidia in the same box? because i found one lying around and installed it. i have gotten X to start up and i have a separate X session in each monitor.

what i want to do is enable Xinerama but when i put it in to my xorg.conf X wont start at all so basicly i was wondering where the problem lies.

i am using the radeon and nv drivers i have read sometimes the nv drivers dont work and also that the module "glx" may also cause problems. i dont want to invest in a bunch of new video cards to get this to work but i just might have to.

xorg.conf

here is my xorg file
xorg.conf:


Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" RightOf "Screen1"
Screen 1 "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
Screen 2 "Screen2" RightOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/etc/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "xtrap"
Load "GLcore"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 520 320 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "ACR"
ModelName "Acer X243W"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertRefresh values to use DDC:
HorizSync 30.0 - 82.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 430 270 # mm
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "SAM"
ModelName "SyncMaster"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertRefresh values to use DDC:
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 430 270 # mm
Identifier "Monitor2"
VendorName "DELL"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertRefresh values to use DDC:
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "RV380 [Radeon X600 (PCIE)]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card1"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "RV380 [Radeon X600 (PCIE)]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card2"
Driver "nv"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000]"
BusID "PCI:2:3:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Card1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen2"
Device "Card2"
Monitor "Monitor2"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
 
Old 01-22-2010, 01:06 AM   #2
Elemecca
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Try posting your X log. you can find it at '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' on most distributions.

When you're posting file contents please put them in [code][/code] blocks to distinguish them from the rest of your post. They'll come out looking like this:
Code:
some file contents...
 
Old 01-22-2010, 11:17 AM   #3
Jezzirolk
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im not at home i will post my log file. i take it you want the log file once i enable Xinerama and it crashes. so you can find the problem. i will post when i get home.

thanks for the help

--jezz
 
  


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