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kazaduum 10-07-2004 03:50 PM

Dual Monitors Radeon 9200
 
I just upgraded my system to FC2 and I am trying to get dual monitors working. I have a a Dell 4600 with an on-board video built in to the workstation using the i810 driver and just installed a Radeon 9200 PCI video card. I have two monitors. I can get one set or the other working, but not both. Anyone else done this? I tried everything using the display program, I tried downloading the radeon rpm called xfglrx-4.3.0-3.14.1.i386.rpm and running fglxconfig, but that only crashes my X server.

Any help would be greatly appreciate.

jad

fenderman11111 10-07-2004 07:27 PM

first of all... is your radeon one of those with two outputs? or are you using two video cards?

with two cards, the way to use dualmon in linux is through an option called Xinerama. google it and it will give you instructions. since you have gotten them both working separately, it should be a fairly simple process to get Xinerama working.

I have a pci and an agp video card. this is what my XF86Config-4 looks like:
Code:

Section "ServerFlags"
#the tildes are where I omitted junk like keyboards
~~
      Option "Xinerama" "true"
~~
EndSection
~~
Section "Monitor"
      Identifier  "My Monitor"
      HorizSync  31.5 - 79.0
      VertRefresh 50-90
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier        "monitor2"
        HorizSync        31.5 - 79.0
        VertRefresh        50-90
EndSection
~~


Section "Device"
    Identifier        "S3 ViRGE"
    Driver            "s3virge"
    ChipSet        "virge"
    BusID      "PCI:0:11:0"
    VideoRam        4096
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "ATI Rage 128"
    Driver      "ati"
    BusID        "PCI:1:0:0"
 EndSection


Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "ATI Rage 128"
    Monitor    "My Monitor"
    DefaultDepth 16

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth      8
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth      16
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth      24
        Modes      "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768"
        # Modes            "800x600"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier        "Screen 2"
        Device                "S3 ViRGE"
        Monitor                "monitor2"
        DefaultDepth    16                                                   

        Subsection        "Display"
                Depth  16       
                Modes        "1280x1024"
                ViewPort        0 1200

        EndSubsection
EndSection



Section "ServerLayout"

    Identifier  "Simple Layout"
    #identifier must be present

    Screen "Screen 1"
    Screen "Screen 2" RightOf "Screen 1"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection

Basically... I simply set up two monitors and two video cards, and under the ServerLayout section i put them both in... notice the "RightOf" keyword... that tells X that my second video card/monitor is sitting to the right of the first one. for more info, like i said earlier, http://www.google.com/linux .

one final note, make sure that when you set up your cards you run them at the same color depth or else it won't work.


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