DualScreen, 2 cards, AGP and PCI, have to boot from PCI?

From: Dieter Soltau (sprockhoevel_at_web.de)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:21:50 +0200

hi there,
i have a strange problem.

i have 2 different graphic cards, and 2 different monitors connected to my
machine, using xorg. if i go to my BIOS and set the INIT to the PCI CARD,
everything works fine. you know, i mean this "init display 1st" setting in
bios.

however, this is not convenient to me. the "main monitor" (or how should i
call it, dunno) is the one connected to my AGP card.
if i init from AGP, i have X only, and no dualscreen. also in KDE this is
greyed out. also i do not hav any tty1-6. not even on the second monitor.

where is my error? this is driving me mad. could it be a bios problem? i
admit the motherboard is pretty "old" (amd athlon 1200 tb, epox board).

here an excerpt of my xorg.conf (relevant part imho):

Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier "Layout[all]"
  InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
  Option "Clone" "off"
# Option "Xinerama" "on"
  Screen 0 "Screen[0]" 0 0
  Screen 1 "Screen[1]" RightOf "Screen[0]"
EndSection

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