On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 04:51:49PM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote:
> I have two good monitors and two video cards that I am trying to get
> working at same time for two screens at once.
> After I installed second card, I found that it was not configured.
> If I change the BIOS setting to PCI first, the other card then works and
> first one is not configured.
> I have made xorg.conf files that work fine for both, separately.
> I mixed parts of the two, seems to work OK but no second monitor.
>
> Tried boot -c to enable vga0 and vga1.
> Didn't help
>
> What do I need to do now?
> One card is AGP the other is PCI.
> Both are older Nvidia
>
I have that same setup working. It will only show console output on
one screen but both work in X. Just adjust the values to your setup.
# xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbVariant" "dvorak"
Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Video Card1"
Driver "nv"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Video Card2"
Driver "nv"
BusID "PCI:5:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor2"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Video Card1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen2"
Device "Video Card2"
Monitor "Monitor2"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Multihead"
Screen "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen2"
Screen "Screen2" RightOf "Screen1"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "true"
Option "DefaultServerLayout" "Multihead"
EndSection
