> Peter Arnold wrote: > > An now to reply to my on post... > > > >> Now my MAIN issue: I'm happy to live with the > above until it's fully fixed but my main problem now > is running TWO video cards. Xorg can only run one of > the oboard intel and PCI nVidia. I can use either but > not both by changing the PC BIOS to search for video > onboard or PCI first. > > The Xorg.0.log shows xorg finding both cards but > only fires up one. The follwing line is probably a > clue but I can't find anything that explains why.... > > (WW) NVIDIA: No matching Device section for > instance (BusID PCI:2:3:0) found > > > > I had to explicitly set the BusID for the non > primary video card for xinerama to work... > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "Videocard0" > > Driver "nvidia" > > #Driver "nv" > > VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" > > BoardName "GeForce FX 5200" > > BusID "PCI:2:3:0" # <<< needs to > be explicitly set. > > EndSection > 2D Xlib may work, 3D OpenGL will not. Since you > indicate you are > enabling Xinerama, there is a good chance the two X > driver modules > may generate visual lists that are incompatible with > each other. > Xinerama works best with like cards.
Hmmm not sure of the ramifications there but my main objective is more real estate for 2D apps which so far seem to be working just fine. I tried installing two like nVidia cards but Solaris would not even boot. It seemed to get to the device configuration stage then hang (for over half an hour). I didn't prersue that issue as I had no clue how to. > > Xorg currently does not implement a per device GLX > module; there is > only one per X server instance. There is no way to > load both the > NVIDIA GLX module (for the NVIDIA board) and the VESA > GLX module > for the Intel onboard. Yes you are right. I tried running /usr/openwin/lib/xscreensaver/hacks/atlantis with the Xorg nv driver and it barfed. I tried same with nVidia's driver and it worked.... only on the nvidia driven screen. When I moved the window to the xorg/i810 driven screen the window went blank. Quit amusing really :) Thanks you and everyone else for your help. Cheers Peter Arnold This message posted from opensolaris.org
