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Old 10-30-2005, 06:04 PM   #1
aamy
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mutiple monitor config


Total newbie. Installed Suse 10.0 just a couple of days ago. I have three monitors on my system, two video cards: NVDIA GeForce 5500 (AGP) supporting two monitors; NVDIA GeForce 4400 (PCI) supporting one monitor.

Suse apparently detected both the video cards, but only two monitors are working. I googled and found out about SAX2, when I bring it up it says Display 1 is running on 4400 and Display 2 is running on 5500. But two monitors are connected to 5500? How do I set this up? Any help is appreciated.

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Old 10-30-2005, 08:37 PM   #2
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I managed to get a similar setup to work in Suse10... one video card with two monitors... NVIDIA 6600
Unfortunately, I am also a newbie and most of what I did was trial and error.

I believe I ended up manually editing /etc/X11/XF86FConfig to contain two devices and two screens.
I basically copied what was there and changed the Identity value.
After rebooting I was able to make my changes in Sax2

Unfortunately that's the best I can help you with... it was literally "Hey, it's working now... what'd i do?"
If you would like me to paste my Config file, I'd be more than happy to.
My ultimate trick, I think, was the manual editing.
 
  


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