Questions at bottom... [Background:]-------------------------- I used to be a happy dual-head user. Had two Matrox cards (Millennium +Millennium II) installed and configured in a Xinerama setup. The original procedure ended up basically: Use SaX to setup the cards and the two different monitors (one 15", one 17") as 'traditional' desktop. Manually edit XF86Config and change the Xinerama option to "on". (Doing so inside SaX would never work...) This worked fine both in my old machine (p166/SuSE 7.1) and the new one (Athlon1333/SuSE 7.3) Next thing you know it; Enter RtCW ...<yay>... Tried running the game, which obviously didn't like the idea of having to use aforementioned hardware (I don't blame it ;) O.K. A kind person gave me this Leadtek Vanta nVidia card, to try... So I removed the dual Matrox-cards, installed the nVidia one, set it up with SaX. Works. Lets me kill lots of other players on the Net and generally is pretty nice... :) *BUT* ...I miss my second screen... <Insert wailing noises here> ...so: [Experiment:]-------------------------- Last weekend I tried adding one of the Matrox cards (Mill II) back in there. Much to my surprise it actually *kind of* worked... SaX2 was my friend, again, and agreed to set it up (traditional-like of course) and after editing XF86Config to enable Xinerama, that *too* was working. I had my kde2 spread across both heads, and there was much rejoicing ;D Aside from the fact that my console now resided on the 15" monitor (being recognized as 'screen 0' by SaX2), and that I'd had to go with 15bpp as well as (naturally) not have any 3D-stuff loaded - it worked 'perfectly' ...that and the fact that (15bpp+no 3D)=(no Wolfenstein) which kind of defeats the purpose of having the nVidia card in there, in the first place... :-P The rest of saturday afternoon (abt 30 minutes) went restoring the single head setup from my backed-up XF86Config... ;) [Questions:]--------------------------- I realize that having (Xinerama on) this mixed hardware is not going to let me play RtCW right off the bat. But I wonder: Scenario 1 "Working configuration": a) The (AGP) nVidia card should be the 'primary' card. ie: should host the consoles (tty1-6) b) Should work with whatever resolution/colordepth is possible. Much like the above mentioned. c) Ideally I'd like to have dual-head console too... (anybody already have experience with this? http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net ...haven't had the time to check it out yet...) Scenario 2 "Gaming configuration": a) Should probably ignore the Matrox card altogether. b) Could a) be achieved by setting up runlevel 4 as a "gaming-environment"? c) -or would it be nessecary to go as far 'back' as passing arguments to lilo/booting a custom-built kernel or the like... d) ... or something? (like maybe using a 'lighter' WM... ?-) Scenario 3 "Get-a-dualhead-card-that-works-with-games-too-dumbass": - yeah I know ;) but I really wasn't planning on spending money on this issue right now... and also I like the idea of getting disparate stuff to work together, if possible... anyway... suggestions anyone? [Closing:]----------------------------- I deliberately kept this message at a 'conversational' level, as the various measures involved in achieving Scenarios 1&2 probably could (and should) generate threads of their own... [Hardware/system:]--------------------- Mainboard: Abit KG7 lite (amd 761/via 686) CPU: XP 1500+ 1.333 RAM: 256 MB DDR 266MhZ nVidia card: "LeadTek Vanta [NV6]" 16 MB ram Matrox card: 2164-something (Haven't specs available right now) Monitor1: Hansol 710P Monitor2: Proview 1564 (Or whatever better I can find in a dumpster... ;) SuSE 7.3 KDE 2.2.2 Xfree 4.01 Hints/advice/pointers/ideas welcome :) Jon Clausen