Many years ago, there was a slogan "Wrap your a** in fiberglass, buy a 'Vette".
Now I have wrapped my eyes in glass...BigBox has three rectangular eyeballs
looking at me and room for one more.
Here are the details:
AMD Athlon64 clocked at 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM, ATI Radeon 8500 LE AGP, ATI Radeon
9250 PCI. Fedora Core 6 running in 32-bit mode. Spanning desktop size: 4200 x
1050. APC SU2000XP UPS for backup.
Both video cards are dual-display (one VGA, one DVI). Monitors are a bit picky
as to ordering. These were all saved courtesy of a planned dumpster diving
expedition at the office. I had to play with the ordering of what monitor went
into which card or the video card at bootup would not set up correctly and the
AGP card would clone automatically instead of span. The UPS was a prize from
another diving expedition - had sign on it that it died. All it needed was new
batteries - the original batteries were still in it.
Here is the xorg.conf file:
#
# Triple-head configuration - with room for more...
#
# Richard E. Polivka, N6NKO
# 4 February 2007
# Outside temp: -10 F (!!)
#
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Multihead layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
Screen 1 "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen2"
Screen 2 "Screen2" RightOf "Screen1"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
Option "Clone" "off"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "i2c"
Load "vbe"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "Type1"
EndSection
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "monitor"
HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 60.0 - 160.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
ModelName "monitor"
HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 60.0 - 160.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor2"
ModelName "monitor"
HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 60.0 - 160.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1A"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "ATI Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800 Pro] AGP (Primary Port)"
BusID "PCI:1:0:00"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1B"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "ATI Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800 Pro] AGP (Secondary Port)"
BusID "PCI:1:0:00"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard2A"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "ATI Radeon RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] PCI (Primary Port)"
BusID "PCI:2:7:00"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard2B"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "ATI Radeon RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] PCI (Secondary Port)"
BusID "PCI:2:7:01"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard1A"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Videocard1B"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen2"
Device "Videocard2A"
Monitor "Monitor2"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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Now I am ready for the rough weather season and SKYWARN reporting.
73 from 807,
Richard, N6NKO
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