I had MANY problems getting the ATI cards to go Xinerama on RH8. I had
several to choose from and even tried seperate cards. My point here is that
if you really want Xinerama under Linux and you are mostly doing 2d stuff,
it is better to just use a known good card for Xinerama. It took me a long
time of reading other people's experiences before I settled on a Matrox G450
card which can be had for less that $100. Following is my config file for
what I have at work:
# XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
Option "Xinerama"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of
the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
# Modified by mouseconfig
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then
# this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you
# also use USB mice at the same time.
Identifier "DevInputMice"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "CTX PV720A"
DisplaySize 340 270
HorizSync 30.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh 60.0 - 75.0
ModeLine "1400x1050" 129.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054
1100 +hsync +vsync
ModeLine "1400x1050" 151.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054
1100 +hsync +vsync
ModeLine "1400x1050" 162.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054
1100 +hsync +vsync
ModeLine "1400x1050" 184.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054
1100 +hsync +vsync
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "mga"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "Matrox Millennium G450"
VideoRam 32768
Screen 0
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "mga"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "Matrox Millennium G450"
VideoRam 32768
Screen 1
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768"
"800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richards Jr, Edward C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 10:07 AM
Subject: [brlug-general] Partition Imaging Software
> Greetings fellow listers,
>
> I have been playing rather extensively with Mandrake 9.1 on my test
machine, which has been an interesting, fun and horizon expanding
experience. My initial install of 9.1 was successful but when I attempted to
log-in following the initial reboot, the system would lock up. Remembering
that I had previously successfully installed 9.0, I decided to do an install
of 9.0 and then upgrade to 9.1, which I have been able to do successfully
now on three different occasions. However, this is a rather, in Linux
installation time, time consuming process if you do a "complete" install and
then a "complete" upgrade. The initial install takes close to 2 hours on my
test machine and then the upgrade takes even longer, which I do not
understand at all. The machine is composed of the following:
>
> AMD K6-500 CPU on unknown motherboard (I don't remember at the moment and
am at the office)
> 256 meg PC100 ram
> Various hard drives (I have one of those quick change HD drawer
thingies) - Mandrake is on a Fujitsu 12.6 Gig, 5400 RPM IDE drive
> nVidia GeForce2 DDR AGP 64 meg video card driving an AOC Spectrum 19" CRT
Monitor
> ATI Radion 7000 PCI 64 meg video card driving a Hansol 530 15" LCD panel
> QPS 24X10X32 CD burner (Linux sees it as an ATAPI 24X10)
> Generic 52X CD-ROM drive
> Ensonic PCI 128 sound card (ESS1371 I think)
> Logitec wireless keyboard & optical wheel mouse (both connected to PCI
ports)
> ATI TV Wonder VE TV card
> NIC (I don't remember which one at the moment)
>
> I have managed to get everything working rather easily, with the exception
of the dual heads/xinerama which is the ultimate focus of this post. The two
previous installs have been the result of trying to implement the dual
heads, which I have managed to do in the past through a series of trials and
errors, but on two occasions have "hosed" the system and I ultimately did a
complete reinstall. Even going to the command line,
>
> # su
> $ cd /etc/Xll
> $ cp ./XF86Config-4 ./XF86Config-4.bak
> $ cp ./XF86Config-4.old ./XF86Config-4
>
> and restarting X doesn't always work, and the exact procedure for making
dual heads/xinerama work in Mandrake isn't well documented or I haven't
found it yet. All that being said, I would like to be able to "clone" my
existing Mandrake 9.1 installation to CDs, much like Partition Magic does,
in order to be able to quickly and easily reload the current configuration
after I break it again, and I WILL! I downloaded and installed the RPM
packages of mindi/mondo for Mandrake 9.0 (there isn't a 9.1 specific package
yet) from http:www.microwerks.net/ but haven't gotten it/them to work
successfully yet. I was able to generate both the rescue floppys and a
bootable CD from the iso that mindi created but once it loads it gives me an
error and mondo won't run. I am going to send an e-mail to the developers
with the error log file. I also installed parted ( http://partimage.org )
and mkcdrec ( http://mkcdrec.ota.be ) but haven't had a chance to play with
them yet as I thought that mondo/mindi was (and may yet) going to solve my
problem. Does anyone have any other suggestions as to applications that I
should look into. I would also like to be able to clone my Xandros
installation on my production machine so a DEB package would be nice, but I
am not opposed to compiling, once I find something that works.
>
> As an aside, Mandrake 9.1 is really sweet and the
installation/configuration by the end user using a GUI is MUCH improved over
previous versions, but still has a ways to go to catch up with some of the
other distros that are targeting the desktop market, not the least of which
is the dual head configuration mentioned above. The network configuration
stuff has come a long way as well, but the user still has to find and mount
any Window$ partitions as well as network shares, but SAMBA configuration is
easier, printer installation is a breeze, as is the TV card configuration.
KDE 3.1 is SWEET and Zapping is the best TV application for Linux that I
have seen yet. It is every bit as good as anything that ATI bundles for
Window$ and is MUCH more flexible/configurable. K3B is the best audio CD
burning app that I have found so far, and, with the exception of being able
to directly creating CD labels, it does everything (including writing CD
text) that EZCD Creator and Nero Burning ROM do and does it faster and with
greater flexibility than either of them. I am amazed at how fast and how far
things have progressed for the benefit of the desktop user/newbie in the
short year that I have been playing with Linux and can't wait the see where
we will be in another year. My next adventure after solving the above
described challenge is to investigate the Eastman Computer Music Center
Turn-Key package ( http://lulu.esm.rochester.edu/kevine/turnkey/home.html )
and Thac's RPM's for Mandrake ( http://rpm.nyvalls.se/ ), both of which are
"distros" that package a collection of applications targeted specifically at
multi-media enthusists and developed to run on Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1.
>
> Any and all thoughts and comments will be greatly appreciated,
>
> Ed Richards
>
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