On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Tamas Hauer wrote:
I am trying to start an X server with two screens on two VGA cards. Here they are: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [root@pcettmg01 root]# lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF 02:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 264VT [Mach64 VT] (rev 40) (see the output of lspci -vv at : http://cern.ch/tamas.hauer/X/lspci) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The interesing ( I think) part of XF86Config is below, (the whole thing is at: http://cern.ch/tamas.hauer/X/XF86Config.dual). For testing purposes, I define three layouts: Single, Second and Xine. These should start one screen on the first or the second monitor and the xinerama, respectively. Then I do:
startx -- -xf86config XF86Config.dual -layout Single startx -- -xf86config XF86Config.dual -layout Second startx -- -xf86config XF86Config.dual -layout Xine
The first two work as expected but the dual setup does not. In that case I get a single screen on my primary monitor (the one defined in Single) and nothing else.
I would greatly appreciate any insight.
The XFree logs are here: http://cern.ch/tamas.hauer/X/XFree86.0.log.Single http://cern.ch/tamas.hauer/X/XFree86.0.log.Second http://cern.ch/tamas.hauer/X/XFree86.0.log.Xine
I tried various combinations of drivers (ati and vesa) for the two cards, no success
Please post the output of `scanpci -v`, one run just after a power-down/reboot but before the X server starts.
It seems your system BIOS is not allocating resources to the secondary adapter. If that's the case, you are very lucky that the VESA driver works at all.
Marc.
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