Multiple monitor support in Suse 7 (ppc)
Has anyone been able to get multiple monitor support to work in suse 7.0? I
have a beige G3 with two ATI 128 Orion cards driving two 17" displays; this
all works fine in OS9 and OSX PB.
I used SaX2 to configure XF86 4.01 for one monitor and it worked fine
(within the limits of the tricky user interface provided by SaX2). It
identified both cards and allowed me to configure them, but never displayed
the second monitor icon on the last panel (which arranges the relative
monitor positions).
I then tried to edit XFConfig manually, removing all the modelines except
for the two that I wanted to use (I generated the modelines from the single
monitor setup for each display resolution). I changed the other XFConfig
entries to drive each monitor in turn, but only my main monitor worked. I
was unable to get any response from the second monitor no matter what I did.
I would rather use SaX2 to do all this. Has anyone gotten it to work?
Thanks.
Warren Nagourney
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Warren Nagourney
i'm going to be going through this all over the xmas lull, and my preliminary research indicates that you need to use xinerama (which can drive a whole wall of monitors) for any multihead configurations. i also remember seeing something wrt the xinerama option IN sax not working but working properly when passed as a cmdline option. what is your configuration for choosing which OS to boot - i have found the suse bootloader (yaboot, i think) does not function with the osX bootloader... if i find anything else relating to this, i'll post it to the list // on 12/21/00 1:19 PM, Warren Nagourney at warren@dirac.phys.washington.edu wrote:
Has anyone been able to get multiple monitor support to work in suse 7.0? I have a beige G3 with two ATI 128 Orion cards driving two 17" displays; this all works fine in OS9 and OSX PB.
I used SaX2 to configure XF86 4.01 for one monitor and it worked fine (within the limits of the tricky user interface provided by SaX2). It identified both cards and allowed me to configure them, but never displayed the second monitor icon on the last panel (which arranges the relative monitor positions).
I then tried to edit XFConfig manually, removing all the modelines except for the two that I wanted to use (I generated the modelines from the single monitor setup for each display resolution). I changed the other XFConfig entries to drive each monitor in turn, but only my main monitor worked. I was unable to get any response from the second monitor no matter what I did.
I would rather use SaX2 to do all this. Has anyone gotten it to work?
Thanks.
Warren Nagourney
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Voice: 206-543-9585 University of Washington 206-543-0143 Physics Dept., Box 351560, Seattle, WA 98195 Fax: 206-685-0635
I suppose one of the advantages of using an "old-world" G3 is the ability
to use BootX - I have no trouble booting into either linux or MacOS9. From
OS9, I can boot into OSX using the SystemDisk utility. I have heard about
problems with Yaboot, but have no experience with it.
I tried Xinerama, but as you observed it didn't work (from SaX2). I have
also tried to get my second monitor working *singly* without any luck. I
wouldn't expect Xinerama from the command line to work, but I will try it.
Thanks for the response.
-wn
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i'm going to be going through this all over the xmas lull, and my preliminary research indicates that you need to use xinerama (which can drive a whole wall of monitors) for any multihead configurations.
i also remember seeing something wrt the xinerama option IN sax not working but working properly when passed as a cmdline option.
what is your configuration for choosing which OS to boot - i have found the suse bootloader (yaboot, i think) does not function with the osX bootloader...
if i find anything else relating to this, i'll post it to the list
//
on 12/21/00 1:19 PM, Warren Nagourney at warren@dirac.phys.washington.edu wrote:
Has anyone been able to get multiple monitor support to work in suse 7.0? I have a beige G3 with two ATI 128 Orion cards driving two 17" displays; this all works fine in OS9 and OSX PB.
I used SaX2 to configure XF86 4.01 for one monitor and it worked fine (within the limits of the tricky user interface provided by SaX2). It identified both cards and allowed me to configure them, but never displayed the second monitor icon on the last panel (which arranges the relative monitor positions).
I then tried to edit XFConfig manually, removing all the modelines except for the two that I wanted to use (I generated the modelines from the single monitor setup for each display resolution). I changed the other XFConfig entries to drive each monitor in turn, but only my main monitor worked. I was unable to get any response from the second monitor no matter what I did.
I would rather use SaX2 to do all this. Has anyone gotten it to work?
Thanks.
Warren Nagourney
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Voice: 206-543-9585 University of Washington 206-543-0143 Physics Dept., Box 351560, Seattle, WA 98195 Fax: 206-685-0635
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