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I had a spare video card and monitor lying around, so I thought I would try getting a dual monitor setup going, but its not going very well. I have ...
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- 08-23-2005 #1Just Joined!
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Help with using 2 monitors
I had a spare video card and monitor lying around, so I thought I would try getting a dual monitor setup going, but its not going very well. I have a Radeon 9200 AGP, and a Trident 96XX. Heres my xorg.conf I made:
When I'm using this config file, X will fail to start. I know I'm doing something wrong, but I don't know whatCode:Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Simple Layout" Screen "Screen0" "Screen0" 0 0 Screen "Screen1" RightOf" Screen0" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer" #Option "Xinerama" EndSection Section "Files" FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" # paths to defoma fonts FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID" EndSection Section "Module" Load "bitmap" Load "dbe" Load "ddc" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "int10" Load "record" Load "type1" Load "vbe" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor1" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Radeon9200" Driver "ati" BusID "PCI:2:0:0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Trident96XX" Driver "vesa" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Radeon9200" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Trident96XX" Monitor "Monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection
Any help would be appreciated
- 08-23-2005 #2
Could you post the error that you get?
- 08-23-2005 #3Just Joined!
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Error found in line 3 of "ServerLayout":
Screen keyword must be followed by an option number and screen name in quotes and an optional position/layout information
Problem parsing the config file
Error parsing the config file
Fatal error:
No screens found
- 08-23-2005 #4
I now know which part of the config file is wrong, it is this on:
It may be that the configuration is wrong, since I think you would need to use the quotes in the right way (I don't think you have here). Though since I'm no expert on dual heads this is all the guidence I can give. Though you might want to see what happens if you do:Screen "Screen1" RightOf" Screen0"as the line (they bothe *should* show the same picture -- if it works you can use it as a base for makeinsg them side by side)Screen "Screen1" "Screen1" 0 0
- 08-23-2005 #5Just Joined!
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Alright, I got one screen to work...I probably have to set the proper resolution and refresh rate for the other, its a bit old
Heres what I did:
Code:Screen 0 "screen0" 0 0 Screen 1 "screen1" 0 0
- 08-25-2005 #6Just Joined!
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I haven't been able to get the second monitor to display anything


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