<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head> <title></title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"/> </head> <body> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Hello:</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><br /> </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Combing through the xorg.0.log file was an important part of being able to set up two Nvidia cards (FX580+FX370) to drive three monitors (Dell P1914S + 2x SyncMaster 940N) in Xinerama mode.</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><br /> </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Lots of searching and countless logouts/logins/boots eventually got me the working xorg.conf I wanted, with 'apparently' no problems: A desktop spanning three 1280*1024 monitors (3840*1024).</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><br /> </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">This is under PCLinuxOS.</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Build Operating System: Linux_4.13.5-pclos1 PCLinuxOS</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Current Operating System: Linux groucho 4.12.10-pclos1</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><br /> </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">The one thing that caught my eye was how some (quite a few) entries repeat themselves numerous times within the log file.</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><br /> </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">For example, these lines accounting for the mode setting of each one of my three monitors:</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><br /> </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "CRT-0:1280x1024"</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">(II) NVIDIA(1): Setting mode "DFP-0:1280x1024"</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">(II) NVIDIA(2): Setting mode "CRT-1:1280x1024"</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><br /> </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">The xorg.0.log file has these three entries repeated nine (9) times each, obviously at different time stamps.</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><br /> </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">There are other quite a few parts of the log file that are repeated a number of times and seeing that there is a 20+ seconds wait from the PW 'enter' to a usable desktop, I am starting to wonder if there isn't something wrong with the xorg.conf file I put together.</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><br /> </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">My xorg.0.log has no errors (EE), a coulple of the advisories (WW) that xorg calls 'warnings' and to which many before me have tried to find answers to (and decided that they're harmless) so that seems to be all right (?).</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><br /> </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">So the first question would be if it is 'normal' (as in 'usual') for the log file to have repeated entries for the exact same thing.</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><br /> </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">It starts at [ 58.839] and ends at [100.838].</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><br /> </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Thanks in advance,</span></font></div> </body> </html>