Dual Monitor in Suse 10

gherikill · 10-19-2005, 10:17 AM

Has anyone got a dual monitor system to work correctly in Suse 10. Sax2 only detects one monitor for my Radeon VE. Does nayone have a config file or instructions on how to get it to work in Suse 10? It works fine in 9.3.

gherikill · 10-19-2005, 02:50 PM

Anyone??

KimVette · 10-19-2005, 03:33 PM

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gherikill · 10-26-2005, 10:12 AM

advantagex · 11-12-2005, 02:13 AM

I just installed linux suse 10, anyone have any idea about setting up a dual monitor, I am a newbie in need of direction

Keruskerfuerst · 11-12-2005, 02:38 AM

Multihead setup in sax2.

KimVette · 11-12-2005, 02:59 PM

I haven't seen any way to get sax2 to detect multiple monitor outputs on a single card, but the proprietary ATI drivers do. Download ATI's proprietary driver for Linux (www.ati.com) and install that. The howto on the download is very good (it's accurate, even, unlike most of ATI's documentation

) and on supported cards I've seen it detect multiple-output capability every single time it should have - even on notebook chipsets.

Also: be aware that ATI's driver calls X.org's "Xinerama" mode "Big Desktop" so be sure to select that option during the configuration process.

STuPiDiCuS · 11-13-2005, 12:31 AM

I'm sure this helps this guy out, but what about the ppl stuck with cards that ati doesn't support... like pre 8500 radeons for instance?

Keruskerfuerst · 11-13-2005, 01:00 AM

You have to configure Multihead in sax2.

KimVette · 11-14-2005, 10:19 AM

Quote:

I'm sure this helps this guy out, but what about the ppl stuck with cards that ati doesn't support... like pre 8500 radeons for instance?

Beats me; I'm in that same boat, FWIW. I'm anxiously awaiting X.org 7.0 so I can FINALLY get my AiW8500DV working. I have a dual-head setup using two cards, but I can't get TWO outputs working on my Radeon 7500 (PCI) card to get the third monitor working.

jawaking00 · 11-14-2005, 10:39 AM

For dual head cards, the easiest way to do it in my experience is to go into the xorg.conf file and copy the Device, Monitor and Screen sections and paste them in after the originals and then change them to number 2.

So you'd have:

Code:

[Device]
nVidia Card 1

[Monitor]
Monitor 1

[Screen]
Screen 1
Monitor 1
nVidia Card 1


[Device]
nVidia Card 2

[Monitor]
Monitor 2

[Screen]
Screen 2
Monitor 2
nVidia Card 2

[Layout]
Screen 1
Screen 2 "Leftof" Screen 1

Now I'm at work, so I don't have my xorg.conf file in front of me, but that should give you the general idea. Basically the video card section should be identical to the original one, but with a different name. Then the Monitor 2 and Screen 2 should give the correct sizes and specs for the appropriate monitor and screen.

This will create a seperate Xserver for each monitor, I've used this kind of setup in many different distro's but never SUSE 10 specifically.

Hope that helps.

hshana · 12-16-2005, 06:45 PM

I am having a similar problem with suse 10. I had dual monitors working great in 9.3 with an nvidia ti 4400 and two flatscreens, one hooked up to the digital output and one to the analog. Now it seems to recognize the digital monitor, but only put a screen up on the analog. Sax2 won't give me the option to configure the second monitor or card, unless there is a new way to do it. Anyone know what's going on?