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

From: Dieter Soltau (sprockhoevel_at_web.de)
Date: 08/27/04

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    Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 19:32:27 +0200

    Floyd L. Davidson wrote:

    >>even if xinerama is uncommented, they appear as 0.0 and 0.1. this is
    >>correct, and exactly what i want. uncommenting xnerame behaves the same as
    >>"xinerama" "off". hmm, at least it does here.
    >
    > This makes no difference if you don't want xinerama, but it appears
    > your xinerama is not working. If xinerama works you will *not* have
    > anything appear as the :0.1 display. Both video cards will be accessed
    > only as :0.0 in one large virtual display.

    yes, this is also the case here. i have one large screen as 0.0, and i can
    move windows from one monitor to the other. but i dont need that, so i
    switched xinerama off.

    >>> For example, normally a program will be displayed on :0.0, which
    >>> in this case is the MGA video card and its monitor. To access the
    >>> other monitor, and individual program can be invoked from the command
    >>> line like this:
    >>>
    >>> > DISPLAY=:0.1 command
    >>>
    >>> and it will display on the S3VIRGE video card and its monitor.
    >>
    >>yes, all of this works fine. but my ttys are on the monitor connected to
    >>the pci card.
    >
    > But you said above that Linux boots using the AGP display.
    wait a minute here. if i boot from AGP, i have no ttys at all. i have X
    only. if i boot from PCI, i have ttys on PCI only, and X on both. we were
    already at step 2 if you reread your message, and both cards are in.

    > Go back
    > to that stage, and *fix* it. None of this X configuration makes any
    > difference at all until you get the preliminary steps to work the way
    > you want.
    excuse me, how? i followed those steps, really.

    >>i dont think i can change this, because X has nothing to do with
    >>those screens. thats why i wanted to boot from my AGP, but then the PCI
    >>card is not inizialized at all.
    >
    > Go back and follow the steps. Boot from the AGP and get that to
    > work.
    man, it does work alright. believe or not.

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