10.0 Dualhead problem - what am I missing?
Good evening all, I have installed SuSE 10.0 on a new hard drive (so as to not trash my 9.3 install ^_^) and have a few niggly problems that I can't seem to get sorted. The first of these is this: I have an nVidia Corporation Quadro4 380 XGL (10de@018b) which under 9.3 I have been able to get running in dual-head mode fairly effortlessly by going through YaST > Graphics card and monitor. The card is set up twice, each on the same bus (BusID: 1:0:0), just with one as Primary Screen, and the other with Secondary screen. Lovely :) In 10.0, they appear to have taken away the choice of installing/tweaking the graphics card in that way. It shows only 1 monitor, and I can't seem to add another one/duplicate the gfx card. According to the start-up manual on page 103 (UK english version) under the Dual Head section, it states "check 'Activate dual head mode' at the bottom of the dialog and click 'Configure' to set the dual head options..." Now I may be being dense (won't be the first time, won't be the last ;) ) but I can't seem to locate such a checkbox anywhere in the dialogue presented. It seems to ident the card okay, and recognises it as 9.3 does, just doesn't seem to allow me to get that second head running... no second display tab (as promised in the manual ;)) and I am left feeling somewhat... frustrated. So, in 10.0 I am left working off a single monitor, whereas I just plug my 9.3 drive in and I get glorious dual headed goodness :) And I could set it up in the GUI in 9.3... am I really going to have to hack my x.org conf file? I should also mention that both installs (9.3 and 10.0) are using the nVidia driver not the native nv driver. Overall I found it painless to install, and although I have a few niggles with it (which I will work through in due course) seems to be a fairly solid release. Not done enough testing on it yet (only installed it last night ;) ) but will be pleased to upgrade properly to 10.0 _if_ I can get this dual head problem sorted. Any help is gratefully received, and if I can provide any info, give me a shout. Thanks, Jon
On Friday 21 October 2005 00:01, Jon Jeffels wrote:
Good evening all, I have installed SuSE 10.0 on a new hard drive (so as to not trash my 9.3 install ^_^) and have a few niggly problems that I can't seem to get sorted. The first of these is this:
I have an nVidia Corporation Quadro4 380 XGL (10de@018b) which under 9.3 I have been able to get running in dual-head mode fairly effortlessly by going through YaST > Graphics card and monitor. The card is set up twice, each on the same bus (BusID: 1:0:0), just with one as Primary Screen, and the other with Secondary screen. Lovely :)
In 10.0, they appear to have taken away the choice of installing/tweaking the graphics card in that way. It shows only 1 monitor, and I can't seem to add another one/duplicate the gfx card. According to the start-up manual on page 103 (UK english version) under the Dual Head section, it states "check 'Activate dual head mode' at the bottom of the dialog and click 'Configure' to set the dual head options..."
Now I may be being dense (won't be the first time, won't be the last ;) ) but I can't seem to locate such a checkbox anywhere in the dialogue presented. It seems to ident the card okay, and recognises it as 9.3 does, just doesn't seem to allow me to get that second head running... no second display tab (as promised in the manual ;)) and I am left feeling somewhat... frustrated.
So, in 10.0 I am left working off a single monitor, whereas I just plug my 9.3 drive in and I get glorious dual headed goodness :) And I could set it up in the GUI in 9.3... am I really going to have to hack my x.org conf file?
I should also mention that both installs (9.3 and 10.0) are using the nVidia driver not the native nv driver.
Overall I found it painless to install, and although I have a few niggles with it (which I will work through in due course) seems to be a fairly solid release. Not done enough testing on it yet (only installed it last night ;) ) but will be pleased to upgrade properly to 10.0 _if_ I can get this dual head problem sorted.
Any help is gratefully received, and if I can provide any info, give me a shout.
Thanks,
Jon
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Me too had a similar problem with Sax not recognizing a second head. I have two cards, one Matrox G450 DH (Dual head AGP) And one older MAtrox Mill (PCI) As SuSE10 installs it gives me a nice dual head setup. on Screen 1 and 3 The second head on the G450 is not recognized. It is fairly easily handhacked in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but its a little sad that Sax still cant "get it right".. I just copied and edited the sections for the first head of the G450 and addec "Screen 0" and "Screen 1" in the respective sections. Now i have my three heads again. -- -- /Rikard ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- email : rikard.j@rikjoh.com web : http://www.rikjoh.com mob : +46 (0)736 19 76 25 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >
Me too had a similar problem with Sax not recognizing a second head. I have two cards, one Matrox G450 DH (Dual head AGP) And one older MAtrox Mill (PCI)
As SuSE10 installs it gives me a nice dual head setup. on Screen 1 and 3 The second head on the G450 is not recognized. It is fairly easily handhacked in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but its a little sad that Sax still cant "get it right"..
Another "me too" post :-( I just went through HELL trying to get my dual head ATI card working. I've never had much success with the ATI binary driver (fglrx) but with the radeon driver it wasn't taht hard in previous releases... define two video cards and a little tweaking here and there and it worked. But... what happpened in SUSE 10? Where in SAX can you even change the video driver? I know how to do it by editing my xorg.conf file directly, but.... I fire up SAX and it allows me to change optiosn on the card, but I can't see any way to change drivers. Hav I missed something... no way to manually add a second card. What happend? C.
Having suffered through multihead configuration for Matrox and nVidia cards for several Suse generations, hand-editting is probably required. One thought, nVidia offers "TwinView" in their proprietary driver. The details are on their website, but the gist is that the multihead is handled by the card fairly transparently, in a Xinerama-like manner.
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