3D and normal monitor on one Nvidia Quadro card

sab_schn · 2015-08-03 10:03:26

Hi everyone,

I am trying to run three monitors on a single Nvidia Quadro K2200 graphics card on a Centos 6 workstation.
Two of the monitors are supposed to be 3D, the main monitor normal side.
(image of the 3D system can be found here
www.3d-display-info.com/planars-professional-24-3d-monitor-now-shipping-8700)

-> the 3D monitors are connected at the HDMI-ports via an inverter card, the side (main) monitor via the DVI-port.

If I just run solely the two stereo monitors via the the twinview option they work fine; the single monitor also works fine. I also can run all three side by side.

However as soon as I combine the two settings (main monitor + 3D twinview) in my xorg.conf file, setting them up as two xscreens (xscreen 0= main monitor; xscreen 1 = 3D via Twin view), defining two devices etc, (see below my xorg.conf file) things are getting funny.

- the top monitor of the 3D-sytem is combined with my main screen, with application windows opening left, middle or in the top screen, and the bottom one is the mirror screen.
- checking the nvidia-settings gui the top monitor somehow creeped into the xscreen 0 ?!
- In tried swapping DP-1/DP-2 (nothing changes)
- pluging the main monitor in the HDMI-port and one of the 3D-monitors in the DVI, the 3D doesn't work anymore

So my question: what am I doing wrong? Could the problem be solved by using a second graphics card? Would I need one with identical chip settings (i.e. Quadro K600) or could I also use a gforce card (ther might be one laying around...)

Any help is appreciated – I am close to getting crazy! (especially since I was told multiple times that something like that would work fine on Windows!!!)

Thanks a lot!

 
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0 
    Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "gb"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "PLN PX2710MW"
    HorizSync       29.0 - 81.0
    VertRefresh     55.0 - 76.0
    Option         "DPMS"
    Option         "Primary" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor1"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Planar Systems, Inc. PlanarPL2010M"
    HorizSync       24.0 - 80.0
    VertRefresh     49.0 - 75.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "Quadro K2200"
    Screen          0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device1"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "Quadro K2200"
    Screen          1
EndSection

#monitor normal 
Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "Stereo" "0"
    Option         "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DVI-I-1"
    Option         "metamodes" "DVI-I-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    Option         "SLI" "Off"
    Option         "MultiGPU" "Off"
    Option         "BaseMosaic" "off"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection


#3D monitor
Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen1"
    Device         "Device1"
    Monitor        "Monitor1"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-2, DFP-1"
    Option         "EnablePageFlip" "ON"
    Option         "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-2"
    Option         "Stereo" "4"
    Option         "metamodes" "DP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0  {stereo=PassiveRight}, DP-2: nvidia-auto-select +0+0 {stereo=Passiv
eLeft}"
    Option         "SLI" "Off"
    Option         "MultiGPU" "Off"
    Option         "BaseMosaic" "off"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

Last edited by sab_schn (2015-08-03 10:37:25)

ewaller · 2015-08-03 15:30:47

Your link is 404

Edit: Oh BTW, Welcome to Arch Linux

Last edited by ewaller (2015-08-03 15:31:31)

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#1 2015-08-03 10:03:26

3D and normal monitor on one Nvidia Quadro card

#2 2015-08-03 15:30:47

Re: 3D and normal monitor on one Nvidia Quadro card

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