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Multiple monitor problems - yet another attempt to post this

Daniel Sheppeard

13 Apr 2005 13 Apr '05

12:50

I've tried posting this several times so far and have never seen in show up on the list, but since I've been assured that some of my postings are getting through, I'll try one more time. Problem: I've recently installed a second grfx card and am trying to run double monitors. It seems to work pretty well most of the time, but now it freezes the system if I try to do any of the following: + run SaX2 + configure Date/Time through Yast + run YOU + insert a USB jump drive And I mean freezes completely: I have to unplug my machine to unlock it. I'm running Suse Personal 9.1 on an Athlon processor. My cards are a Diamond Radeon 7000 and an older Matrox card. I've had to uninstall the second card for now, in order to keep my machine going. Any suggestions? T. Daniel

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Jostein Berntsen

13 Apr 13 Apr

13:11

New subject: [SLE] Multiple monitor problems - yet another attempt to post this

On 13.04.05,07:50, Daniel Sheppeard wrote:

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I've tried posting this several times so far and have never seen in show up on the list, but since I've been assured that some of my postings are getting through, I'll try one more time.

Problem: I've recently installed a second grfx card and am trying to run double monitors. It seems to work pretty well most of the time, but now it freezes the system if I try to do any of the following: + run SaX2 + configure Date/Time through Yast + run YOU + insert a USB jump drive

And I mean freezes completely: I have to unplug my machine to unlock it.

I'm running Suse Personal 9.1 on an Athlon processor. My cards are a Diamond Radeon 7000 and an older Matrox card.

I've had to uninstall the second card for now, in order to keep my machine going.

Any suggestions?

T. Daniel

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Look at dual head here: http://cbielke.gmxhome.de/m6700n/ When you shall configure the cards with sax2 go to init 3 in root. Then start x with the xinerama option. - Jostein -- Jostein Berntsen

Daniel Sheppeard

14:42

New subject: [SLE] Multiple monitor problems - yet another attempt to post this

On 4/13/05, Jostein Berntsen wrote:

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Look at dual head here:

http://cbielke.gmxhome.de/m6700n/

When you shall configure the cards with sax2 go to init 3 in root. Then start x with the xinerama option.

- Jostein

Thanks for the suggestion. One question: On the page you referenced, specifically at http://cbielke.gmxhome.de/m6700n/#X11, the author states ' and add an additional card of the same kind'. Do the cards need to be the same type, or will different cards work together?

Rikard Johnels

15:50

New subject: [SLE] Multiple monitor problems - yet another attempt to post this

On Wednesday 13 April 2005 16.42, Daniel Sheppeard wrote:

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On 4/13/05, Jostein Berntsen wrote:

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Look at dual head here:

http://cbielke.gmxhome.de/m6700n/

When you shall configure the cards with sax2 go to init 3 in root. Then start x with the xinerama option.

- Jostein

Thanks for the suggestion. One question: On the page you referenced, specifically at http://cbielke.gmxhome.de/m6700n/#X11, the author states ' and add an additional card of the same kind'. Do the cards need to be the same type, or will different cards work together?

I run two different cards on my system. One Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP Dual Head and one Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2064W [Millennium] At some time earlier i did try a ATG Rage and some SIS card together, and that worked too.. So NO They need NOT be of the same type. -- /Rikard " Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something." -R. Stallman --------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh@norweb.se Web : http://www.rikjoh.com/users/rikjoh Mob : +46 735 05 51 01 PGP : 0x461CEE56 ---------------------------------------------------------------

Stanley Long

18:27

New subject: [SLE] Multiple monitor problems - yet another attempt to post this

Jostein Berntsen wrote:

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On 13.04.05,07:50, Daniel Sheppeard wrote:

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Problem: I've recently installed a second grfx card and am trying to run double monitors. It seems to work pretty well most of the time, but now it freezes the system if I try to do any of the following: + run SaX2 + configure Date/Time through Yast + run YOU + insert a USB jump drive

And I mean freezes completely: I have to unplug my machine to unlock it.

I'm running Suse Personal 9.1 on an Athlon processor. My cards are a Diamond Radeon 7000 and an older Matrox card.

SuSE 5.3 ran dual heads with 1-AGP and 1-PCI video, at least on fvwm2. KDE didn't do as well in those days. SaX2 still has separate configs for each card, so they invite the use of different cards :-))

I have a Matrox G450 w/ SuSE 7.2, also a G550 w/ 9.2. ...

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Look at dual head here:

http://cbielke.gmxhome.de/m6700n/

When you shall configure the cards with sax2 go to init 3 in root. Then start x with the xinerama option.

Are there problems running non-xinerama? I need 1280x or better on CAD screens, but often want to move down to 1024x or even 800x600 on the 2nd screen (reading maps, examining photo details, etc.). You don't get that with xinerama. SuSE 7.2 works fine w/o xinerama. SuSE 9.x introduced a small glitch. It is not possible to grab an xterm in one virtual screen and slide it to the RIGHT to the adjacent virtual screen ON THE RIGHT. It works to go up/down/left, just not right without xinerama. My sleuthing convinces me it was a problem in the "X" stuff, not SuSE. Unfortunately, Xorg doesn't seem to have corrected it yet.

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- Jostein

Patrick Shanahan

13:14

New subject: [SLE] Multiple monitor problems - yet another attempt to post this

* Daniel Sheppeard [04-13-05 07:52]:

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I've tried posting this several times so far and have never seen in show up on the list, but since I've been assured that some of my postings are getting through, I'll try one more time.

All three have been rec'd here. Apparently, no-one that has read the posting(s) has an appropriate answer. note: It has been discussed here that using gmail remotely seems to *not* present your *own* postings. A search of the archives will provide the complete conversation. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery

Daniel Sheppeard

14:43

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note: It has been discussed here that using gmail remotely seems to *not* present your *own* postings. A search of the archives will provide the complete conversation.

Thanks for the heads up. I've never had this problem before when posting fro my Gmail account. Other messages have been presented without problems. Perhaps it is an intermittant glitch. I'll keep this in mind for the future. T. Daniel

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