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I'm having difficulties setting up Xorg to Xinerama across both of my monitors. I'm running Arch Linux witih kernel 2.6.7, fluxbox and two Nvidia video cards (Geforce 5200 AGP and Geforce2 MX 400 PCI). P4 2.4, 1 Gig of RAM...What else? I'm posting my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file below.
When I startx, there's a screen flicker on my main monitor, then nothing shows up at all, and I have to press the reset button.
This happens when I try to use the second screen as the main (and only) screen as well.
I've looked through the Xorg logs. There is a line that says "(WW) NVIDIA: No matching Device section for instace (BusID PCI:2:5:0) found".
I think I have a device section for the GPU?
I still startx with "startx -- +xinerama". Is this necessary even though I have "Option 'xinerama' 'true'"???
I could post any additional info requested if seomeone would be kind enough to help me.
Thanks very much.
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
Load "type1"
Load "speedo"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/artwiz-fonts/"
FontPAth "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "True"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
HorizSync 30-95
VertRefresh 50-160
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
HorizSync 30-69
VertRefresh 50-120
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Standard VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
Driver "vga"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "VideoCard0"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "VideoCard1"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:2:5:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "VideoCard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 2"
Device "VideoCard1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen 1" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen 2" Rightof "Screen 1"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
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Also, if I comment out the "Screen 1 'Screen 2' Rightof 'Screen 1'" Line, the display works fine on my main monitor.
I added the part about:
I've looked through the Xorg logs. There is a line that says "(WW) NVIDIA: No matching Device section for instace (BusID PCI:2:5:0) found".
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I switched the PCI card from pci 5 to 4 and now it works. I had to physically move the card and update the BusID, evne though it worked in Win in the 5 slot. Oh, well. Works now.
Interestingly, I just installed the new Nvidia drivers, which now no longer load, due to "invalid module format". Damn!
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The problem all along was solved simpl by using the "nv" driver on the second card. I can use "nv" on both or "nvidia" on one, but not "nvidia" on both...
What's the problem??? I'm still looking into it...we'll see.
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i got mine runnig 40 % got display on 2 monitors but the secod one is unusable ig betting a new pci bord becouse this one got only 2 mg off ram and if im not mistaken X needs 4 to run
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