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

From: Miguel De Anda (miguel___notthispart____at_thedeanda.com)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:15:12 -0700

Dieter Soltau wrote:
> 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
>

What do you have for your monitor sections? You might need to tell it
was pci bus the pci card is on.

I did a quick search to find you a sample:
        http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/87432

Section "Monitor"
     Identifier "PrimaryMon"
     HorizSync 30-85
     VertRefresh 50-160
EndSection

Section "Device"
     Identifier "PrimaryDev"
     VendorName "ATI"
     BoardName "Radeon 7500"
     Driver "radeon"
     BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
     VideoRam 65536
EndSection

You might want to try "lspci -v" IIRC. I have mine working fine at home
with 1 agp nvidia card and another pci noname card.

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