I have a dual-headed non-xinerama system with RH 7.0, XFree86 4.1 with a fair number of installed applications. The system is an IBM Intellistation E-Pro (a small desktop type), 500 MHz PIII, 384 MB RAM, two IDE disks (13 GB, 20 GB). I have a nVidia Quadro (Elsa Gloria II, 32 MB) on the AGP slot and a Trident Cyber in a PCI slot. The latter is running at 8-bit only because I need to support an ancient application that sadly requires pseudo-color as the default visual. I am also using FVMW2. The system seems to work pretty well.
Here's my XConfig-4, in case it helps. (See attached file: XF86Config-4) Eric DeLabar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@XFree86.Org on 11/27/2001 09:43:39 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: [Newbie]Dual-headed problems I'm running a minimal install of redhat 7.1 (just what I needed to boot and navigate, etc, I've been trying to compile install the rest as a learning experience). I installed Xfree 4.1.0 and then used XFree86 -configure to generate an XF86Config file. It correctly found both my cards (Ati Rage Fury Pro (AGP) and Ati Xpert 98 (PCI)) and I was able to get them running at 1280x1024 24bpp, so I was happy. After playing and working with it for a while my screen froze, clock stopped, keyboard stopped responding (no ctrl+alt+backspace), but the mouse was still able to move (combined to one monitor). I had to telnet in from another machine to restart, but it eventually just happened again. Now my computer is in sad shape (which I want to blame on the abit motherboard because it is the third one that I have because the first two failed and were not-so-happily replaced by the company) so I'm trying to diagnose the problem exactly, and my question is just if this is a somewhat normal problem with running two-headed systems, or if it really isn't and it's definately my hardware. Some notes on my hardware: Disk IO takes a long time, possible broken IDE controller on mobo. IO performed badly in windows and linux Hard drive is only 1.5 years old. 256 MB RAM 800MHz Processor (athlon slot-a) mobo is abit KA7-100 Rage Fury Pro has 32 MB video ram Xpert has 8 MB Software notes: XFree 4.1.0 Windowmaker (Latest) Xinerama NOT installed or used 2.4.12 Kernel Gnome and KDE NOT installed I attached a copy of my XF86Config. Thanks for any help. -Eric DeLabar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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