[CentOS] Does CentOS support dual graphics cards with 2 monitors each?

Dale Dellutri

daledellutri at gmail.com
Fri Mar 29 03:01:54 UTC 2013


On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Alfred von Campe <alfred at von-campe.com> wrote:
> I have a user who wants to have 4 monitors attached to his CentOS 6.4 system.  I know that you
> can't use both on-board video and a PCI video card at the same time, but what about two PCI
> video cards?  The system seems to recognize them as shown by the lspci -v output below, but
> I can't get Xorg to use the second card.  Has anyone done this?  If so, what is the trick to
> get it to work?

What does xrandr report?

(I've used Matrox M9140 and the matrox prop driver.  That combo provides
quad monitors with one graphics card.)

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Dale Dellutri



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