Trying to set up triple-head
Hello everyone!
Okay, I have three monitors and two video cards. One is an nVidia GeForce 8800GTS and the other an ATI Radeon 7000 (I believe I read 'VE' somewhere.) I installed the nVidia drivers and got the two monitors for that card working, but one of them is stuck at 1024x768 when it can go all the way to 1440x900. I changed the xorg.conf file, put that res under Modes and Metamodes but the Xorg log says: Quote:
So, can anyone help? Thanks in advance! (PS: I just installed the latest Slackware yesterday, so I haven't messed with anything else.) |
I was surprised to find that you are correct about ATI not having Linux drivers for your video card. Before ATI created Linux drivers people used a set of open source drivers called GATOS.
http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ I didn't look up the Nvidia drivers but you should check their web page. It's possible that the driver just doesn't support more than 1024x768. I would recommend using one brand of video cards for all three monitors. It just keeps the computer configuration simpler than using more than one brand. A simpler configuration often results in fewer problems. |
Yessssss I got it working!
I tried to reinstall the nVidia drivers but instead screwed up everything, so I re-installed Slack. Then I played around a lot with the config file until I got one monitor working with its native resolution. Then I added another one, then finally the third. :cool: |
Post your xorg.conf, it will be of help to some people.
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