> This one time, at band camp, "Mitch Crane" <tenacious_x@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > My problem is, I don't know how to enable my second video card. I'm not > > even sure it's possible. One card is an nVidia GF3 and the other is a > > Voodo3. I've been using the Voodoo3 PCI card for my second monitor with > > various nVidia cards for a few years now in Win2k and XP. It works great > > and I really miss the extra real estate when I'm running Linux. > > Not only is it possible, but much fun.. > you simply need to edit your XF86Config to reflect the new monitor and > video card. I use a dual head Matrox G450 (will accept upgrade offers) and > xinerama. I have in the past used up to 3 different video cards to run > multiple monitors. > > There are some good docs here > http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO/ Thanks, Kevin and Mark. tldp.org seemed to be down for a while yesterday, but I loaded it up this morning and got my dual monitor setup working. It wasn't too painful at all. X -configure left my XF86Config in a pretty generic state, but got me to a good starting point. From there I just pasted my old mouse and keyboard configs back in from the backup, fixed a few monitor params, and added the Xinerama flag. I noticed some (all?) dialogs poping up spanning the monitors. I don't know if that's a window manager issue or if maybe there's a fix for that. If not, it's not a serious problem.
