Suse 9.2, X.org and Xinerama
Hello, Has anybody tried to use Xinerama with Suse 9.2 yet? I've been unsuccessful and may have to go back to 9.1. Here's the whole story: Hardware is a P4 with an Intel motherboard. There's an Intel graphics chipset on the motherboard (on the AGP bus) and 2 PCI cards with nVidia Geforce 2 MX chips. With Suse 9.1 (using XFree86), this was working great. I did the install of 9.2 in graphical mode and it made it most of the way through, but after it rebooted, my computer came up into a blank screen. After much fussing and fuming I pulled out the 2 PCI video cards and rebooted. With only the onboard Intel video, the graphical installer came up and the install finished. At this point, I shut down, put the two PCI cards back in and booted back up (into runlevel 3). After logging in, I tried to run sax2 to configure everything. sax2 started, the main screen when blank, screen 2 came out of power-saving mode (the led went from amber to green) but remained blank and screen 3 remained in power-saving mode. At this point everything hung - I had to hit the reset button. Upon rebooting and logging back in, I tried "X -configure" hoping to get something working. No luck: blank screens, monitor 3 still in power-saving mode and this time a continuous and very annoying beep from the computer's internal speaker. Had to hit reset again. I've recompiled X.org from CVS and tried that and I had the same problems. I also tried compiling XFree86 from CVS and installed that - still have the same problems. In summary, I've been completely unsuccessful in getting multiple monitors working on Suse 9.2, but the fact that I had exactly the same problem with X.org and XFree86 is puzzling. Has anyone got any ideas? Thanks, -Ross
* Ross Miller <RMiller@novell.com> [10-12-04 12:54]:
Has anybody tried to use Xinerama with Suse 9.2 yet? I've been unsuccessful and may have to go back to 9.1.
Sorry you are having trouble, but I have a related question. I would really like to try SuSE 9.2. Where can I get it to try? Did you have any problems with the automatic usb connections may people appeared to have with 9.1? -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Ross Miller <RMiller@novell.com> [10-12-04 12:54]:
Has anybody tried to use Xinerama with Suse 9.2 yet? I've been unsuccessful and may have to go back to 9.1.
Sorry you are having trouble, but I have a related question. I would really like to try SuSE 9.2. Where can I get it to try? Did you have any problems with the automatic usb connections may people appeared to have with 9.1?
SuSE website says it will be available in November. ???? -- Until later, Geoffrey Registered Linux User #108567 AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995
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