XF86Config - Two video cards - 4 screens

Peter Cattaneo <pkcattan@syr.edu> writes:

>To Unruh:
>I thought these newsgroups were a place to get help, not criticism. If
>you want to help me and have a question about what I'm doing, ask me.
>Why would you waste your time replying just to complain?

They are here to help. And what I was trying to do was to help you so that
you could get some reasonable replies.

>To Doug, thanks for sending me your XF86Config file. As you said I
>don't know if it will help, but I will look through it. I need to get
>the second card working by itself first. I might even switch the cards
>to make sure. It's probably a waste of time, but at least I will know
>it's working.

Yes, knowing that it is one whole card that is not working makes a big
difference to the potential solution.

Or just remove the working card, so that the other is the only one on the
system.



>I'll keep stabbing away. I'll check out the "Using Xinerama to MultiHead"

>Peter



>Unruh wrote:
>> Douglas O'Neal <oneal@dbi.udel.edu> writes:
>>
>>> Unruh wrote:
>>>> Peter Cattaneo <pkcattan@syr.edu> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm having trouble configuring my video.
>>>> There is zero information here. What video cards? How are you attaching
>>
>>> If you'll take the time to read this fairly short post, you'll know what
>>> video cards. It's difficult to put all necessary information into the
>>> first sentence.
>>
>> YOu are right there was not zero information. There was however far too
>> little information. He needs to remember that noone on the net has been
>> staring at the system trying to figure out how to make it work. The only
>> information they have is what you give them.
>> The nvidea cards you mention are primarily single, very large, monitor
>> cards. Now they maybe can also drive two monitors, but you must let us know
>> what monitors and how you have them connected.
>> Also the ability to drive the two monitors is completely under the control
>> of the drivers, so the driver docs are the first place to look. Of course
>> you may or may not have done that, but you tell us nothing about what you
>> have done or tried. If you want answers, try to put yourself into the mind
>> of the answerer.
>>
>>
>>
>>>> four screens to two video cards? Most video cards have a single output and
>>>> two cards = two monitors.
>>
>>> Most != all. I have multiple systems with Nvidia and ATI cards with two
>>> outputs per card. My desktop has two monitors on a single nVidia Quadro
>>> FX 4000.
>>
>>>>
>>>>> I can get two screens to work fine, but not the other two.
>>>> What "other two"?
>>
>>> With four monitors there two good possibilities so this question does
>>> need to be answered. Is one monitor per card working or is one card
>>> working and the other not working?
>>
>>>>
>>>>> Anyone done this before? I've search high and low for example config
>>>> Done what?
>>>>
>>>>> files, without much success.
>>>>> Here's what I found at Redhat.
>>>>> http://www.redhat.com/magazine/014de...res/multihead/
>>>>> I've scanned my PCI Bus and have the BusID's of the two cards.
>>>>> I have the NVIDIA driver installed from the NVIDIA website.
>>>> What nvidia driver and what card?
>>
>>> Read the post to see that Quadro FX3450 card is installed.
>>
>>>>
>>>>> Sun Ultra 40 2.4 GHz/dual-core 8GB RAM
>>>>> I'm running Redhat Enterprise WS 3 update 6.
>>>>> Two NVIDIA quadro FX 3450 cards
>>>>> Four Dell screens
>>>>> Any suggestions would be great.
>>
>>> I do have a multiple card/multiple monitor setup on an SGI linux
>>> system - different enough that it might not help. If the OP emails
>>> me, I'll forward my XF86Config.
>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Peter
>>
>>> Doug
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>>> Dr. Douglas O'Neal
>>> Manager, Bioinformatics Center
>>> Delaware Biotechnology Institute
>>> (302) 831-3456