can't get dual monitors working
Jeff
wd4nmq at comcast.net
Fri Oct 1 20:35:12 PDT 2010
I am trying an experiment and getting dual monitors working on a system
using two video cards. the video cards are the onboard S3 Savage and a
S3 Virge PCI card. lspci yields:
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c325 [ViRGE] (rev 06)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266]
Trying the easy route I run
Xorg -configure
which I check and all seems ok, but when I try Xorg -config
/root/xorg.conf.new screen 0 goes blank with a "-" in the upper left
hand corner, and then nothing. I cannot even get another terminal screen
using cntrl-alt-1, etc. I have to ssh into the system to reboot.
Now, if I comment out Screen 1 in the Screen Layout scetion X runs fine
on Screen 0. Here is the xorg.conf that works.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
# Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dri2"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 340 270 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "VSC"
ModelName "Q7-3 Series"
HorizSync 30.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh 55.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "AccelMethod" # <str>
#Option "HWCursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWCursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
#Option "UseBIOS" # [<bool>]
#Option "LCDClock" # <freq>
#Option "ShadowStatus" # [<bool>]
#Option "CrtOnly" # [<bool>]
#Option "TvOn" # [<bool>]
#Option "PAL" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForceInit" # [<bool>]
#Option "Overlay" # [<str>]
#Option "TransparencyKey" # [<str>]
#Option "ForceInit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DisableXVMC" # [<bool>]
#Option "DisableTile" # [<bool>]
#Option "DisableCOB" # [<bool>]
#Option "BCIforXv" # [<bool>]
#Option "DVI" # [<bool>]
#Option "IgnoreEDID" # [<bool>]
#Option "BusType" # [<str>]
#Option "DmaType" # [<str>]
#Option "DmaMode" # [<str>]
#Option "AGPMode" # <i>
#Option "AGPSize" # <i>
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "AGPforXv" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "savage"
VendorName "Unknown Vendor"
BoardName "Unknown Board"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "slow_edodram" # [<bool>]
#Option "slow_dram" # [<bool>]
#Option "fast_dram" # [<bool>]
#Option "fpm_vram" # [<bool>]
#Option "pci_burst" # [<bool>]
#Option "fifo_conservative" # [<bool>]
#Option "fifo_moderate" # [<bool>]
#Option "fifo_aggressive" # [<bool>]
#Option "pci_retry" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "early_ras_precharge" # [<bool>]
#Option "late_ras_precharge" # [<bool>]
#Option "lcd_center" # [<bool>]
#Option "set_lcdclk" # <i>
#Option "set_mclk" # <freq>
#Option "set_refclk" # <freq>
#Option "show_cache" # [<bool>]
#Option "HWCursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWCursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
#Option "mxcr3afix" # [<bool>]
#Option "XVideo" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card1"
Driver "s3virge"
VendorName "Unknown Vendor"
BoardName "Unknown Board"
BusID "PCI:0:5:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Card1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Now, there is are a couple of warnings in the log file, but these are
there no matter if screen 1 is enabled or not, i.e. screen 0 only and X
running properly
(WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or
'vmmouse' will be disabled.
(WW) Disabling Mouse0
(WW) Disabling Keyboard0
Any help?
tj
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