I decided to blow out the FC2 installation I inherited on my workstation when I started here and installed CentOS-4.4-i386. Server side stuff I pretty much have down cold, but getting two heads on two seperate video cards doesn't seem to work for me. I'm using the built in Intel 865/810 card as primary, and an ATI Radeon 9200 PCI card as secondary.
Initially, my system bios on this Dell 4600 was set to Auto for which card is primary. That made the ATI card primary. Configuring the 865 card as secondary, and I have the same monitor on both heads, didn't seem to do anything for me.
Then, I set the onboard video as primary, went back into system-config-display and configured the ATI card as secondary, logout/login still nothing changed.
I'm trying to get it to configure as 'spanning desktops', so I just have twice as much real estate, and ideally can drag in between.
Anyone have suggestions? Also, in general, the wm is pretty bland, so suggestions to make it a little more fun would be good too.
:)
Peter
I had similar probs with and IBM desktop - ended up replacing ATI card with a dual head card (Nvidia GeForce) and now all works a treat.
Ian
On 13/01/07, Peter Serwe peter@infostreet.com wrote:
I decided to blow out the FC2 installation I inherited on my workstation when I started here and installed CentOS-4.4-i386. Server side stuff I pretty much have down cold, but getting two heads on two seperate video cards doesn't seem to work for me. I'm using the built in Intel 865/810 card as primary, and an ATI Radeon 9200 PCI card as secondary.
Initially, my system bios on this Dell 4600 was set to Auto for which card is primary. That made the ATI card primary. Configuring the 865 card as secondary, and I have the same monitor on both heads, didn't seem to do anything for me.
Then, I set the onboard video as primary, went back into system-config-display and configured the ATI card as secondary, logout/login still nothing changed.
I'm trying to get it to configure as 'spanning desktops', so I just have twice as much real estate, and ideally can drag in between.
Anyone have suggestions? Also, in general, the wm is pretty bland, so suggestions to make it a little more fun would be good too.
:)
Peter
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Ian Harper wrote:
I had similar probs with and IBM desktop - ended up replacing ATI card with a dual head card (Nvidia GeForce) and now all works a treat.
if you are using the ATI drivers, have you tried using their tool to do the xorg config's ? I've had my laptop ( a Turion ATI setup ) running with Dual head in Span move, and with TV out with the ati proprietary drivers.
Unfortunately I dont have that setup anymore or I would have posted my xorg.conf
- K
I tried everything to get it work - no joy - but the Nvidia just dropped in and worked.
On 15/01/07, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Ian Harper wrote:
I had similar probs with and IBM desktop - ended up replacing ATI card with a dual head card (Nvidia GeForce) and now all works a treat.
if you are using the ATI drivers, have you tried using their tool to do the xorg config's ? I've had my laptop ( a Turion ATI setup ) running with Dual head in Span move, and with TV out with the ati proprietary drivers.
Unfortunately I dont have that setup anymore or I would have posted my xorg.conf
- K
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Karanbir Singh wrote:
Ian Harper wrote:
I had similar probs with and IBM desktop - ended up replacing ATI card with a dual head card (Nvidia GeForce) and now all works a treat.
if you are using the ATI drivers, have you tried using their tool to do the xorg config's ? I've had my laptop ( a Turion ATI setup ) running with Dual head in Span move, and with TV out with the ati proprietary drivers.
Unfortunately I dont have that setup anymore or I would have posted my xorg.conf
Oh well, basically, I tried without the proprietary drivers and just the xorg.conf using the Gnome Display app, and then manually checking through the file to make sure nothing clobbered anything else. No joy. Then, I tried installing the ATI proprietary driver, which incorrectly made my ATI card primary, and the Intel 865 secondary. I doublechecked the system bios to make sure that it wasn't doing anything different, which it wasn't.
I attempted to use aticonfig to set it to a proper dual display, horizontal, and while aticonfig worked as advertised, it didn't fire up my secondary video, and continued using the ATI card as the primary.
I successfully switched the primary/secondary around with a little bit of judicious editing of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but still no second active monitor. Apparently the ATI driver's programmatic editing of xorg.conf really likes the idea of working with a single video card with dual plugs, either dual analog, analog/digital, or digital/digital, or a single adaptor with dual screens, as in a laptop. Maybe that *is* the issue, although I was under the impressing that Xorg could handle both drivers without too much difficulty. It's not like the conf file is complicated or anything.
Anyway it slices, I have *not* figured out how to get it to work right, although I'm thoroughly enjoying using my considerably crappier Intel on-board video until I go fork up for a dual-head card. Bah! I don't really expect X11 to be completely as easy as windoze, but it's decidedly proof-positive that *nix is used for mostly server applications because the UI isn't really any further ahead today than it was 8 years ago. Maybe I should go install Mandrake if I want a workstation/UI centric *nix on my workstation.
:P
Peter
I successfully switched the primary/secondary around with a little bit of judicious editing of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but still no second active monitor. Apparently the ATI driver's programmatic editing of xorg.conf really likes the idea of working with a single video card with dual plugs, either dual analog, analog/digital, or digital/digital, or a single adaptor with dual screens, as in a laptop. Maybe that *is* the issue, although I was under the impressing that Xorg could handle both drivers without too much difficulty. It's not like the conf file is complicated or anything.
Anyway it slices, I have *not* figured out how to get it to work right, although I'm thoroughly enjoying using my considerably crappier Intel on-board video until I go fork up for a dual-head card. Bah! I don't really expect X11 to be completely as easy as windoze, but it's decidedly proof-positive that *nix is used for mostly server applications because the UI isn't really any further ahead today than it was 8 years ago. Maybe I should go install Mandrake if I want a workstation/UI centric *nix on my workstation.
For what it's worth (and I know this won't help your current situation) I've had HORRIBLE experiences with ATI support on linux, even with their binary drivers. Nvidia has always been more reliable for me, and I've got dualhead running just fine with an nvidia card and 2 widescreen lcd's.
Jim Perrin wrote:
For what it's worth (and I know this won't help your current situation) I've had HORRIBLE experiences with ATI support on linux, even with their binary drivers. Nvidia has always been more reliable for me, and I've got dualhead running just fine with an nvidia card and 2 widescreen lcd's.
Is that with a dual head card, or a single head nvidia card and some other random (motherboard based, perhaps) video card? If so, what card is it?
I'm (I guess) in the market for some sort of random cheapish dual-head card, although I need to spend money like I need a hole in the head right now.
;P
Peter
Is that with a dual head card, or a single head nvidia card and some other random (motherboard based, perhaps) video card? If so, what card is it?
I'm (I guess) in the market for some sort of random cheapish dual-head card, although I need to spend money like I need a hole in the head right now.
Previously I was running an nvidia geforce3 TI-500, and using the onboard intel graphics, but they couldn't handle the same resolutions, so moving the window from one screen to the other produced funky results. I decided it would be easier to just get a decent card.
This is the card I just upgraded to. #DISCLAIMER: This is not my ebay listing, I'm not selling anything here. I just couldn't find the listing for this card on newegg.
http://cgi.ebay.com/NVIDIA-Quadro4-Quadro-4-980-XGL-128MB-AGP-Video-Card_W0Q...
Jim Perrin wrote:
Previously I was running an nvidia geforce3 TI-500, and using the onboard intel graphics, but they couldn't handle the same resolutions, so moving the window from one screen to the other produced funky results. I decided it would be easier to just get a decent card.
This is the card I just upgraded to. #DISCLAIMER: This is not my ebay listing, I'm not selling anything here. I just couldn't find the listing for this card on newegg.
http://cgi.ebay.com/NVIDIA-Quadro4-Quadro-4-980-XGL-128MB-AGP-Video-Card_W0Q...
I'll try and find something Nvidia-based with dual analog outputs, even though I have LCD's, who knows where the DVI cables went, unless I want to bother with DVI-VGA adapters - blech. At home I use a mac laptop these days, so I haven't bothered worrying much about Intel hardware for a couple of years.
:)
Peter
Peter Serwe spake the following on 1/16/2007 3:57 PM: At home I use a mac laptop these days, so I
haven't bothered worrying much about Intel hardware for a couple of years.
With the new Mac's you have to worry about Intel hardware again! >:-)
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