dual monitor setup

[Daniel]

I'm trying to set up dual monitors. I put in an ISA monitor card (which does work) and plugged in a second monitor (the first monitor is plugged into the built-in monitor port). I then booted up the computer but it stopped booting when it got to something about floppy drive drivers (I think). Before that, I noticed something about hard drive cache dumping not supported or something like that. I think that running vxconf might set up my monitors for proper dual use but I can't even boot right now. Would booting to tui instead of gui work maybe? Any other suggestions?

[Windozer]

Daniel,

did you make any progress on this?

I don't have any suggestions, but am looking at trying VL on a dual monitor system (using a newer GForce Nvidia card).

cheers
- Howard

[Daniel]

I eventually figured out that the ISA card that I was using was probably just too old and either wasn't compatible or didn't work. I did however, find a sample xorg.conf for a dual monitor setup in a thread somewhere on this forum. I copied and saved it and it is below. I may try a dual monitor setup again sometime with the PCI monitor card from another computer.

HTH

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
    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/"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
    FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap"
Option "Xinerama" "true" # Use both as one big screen
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
  Option "Composite"     "Enable"
  Option "RENDER"        "Enable"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option  "XkbLayout"  "us,il"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/mouse"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    HorizSync   75
    VertRefresh 60
    Option "DPMS"
    Option "FlatPanel"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor1"
    HorizSync   75
    VertRefresh 60
    Option "DPMS"
    Option "FlatPanel"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName   "Unknown Board"
    Option       "Rotate" "CCW"
    BusID       "PCI:7:0:0"
    Option "UseEdidFreqs" "true"
    Option "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
    Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card1"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName   "Unknown Board"
    Option       "Rotate" "CCW"
    BusID       "PCI:7:0:0"
    Option "UseEdidFreqs" "true"
    Option "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
    Screen 1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "2560x1600"
        ViewPort    0 0  # initial origin if mode is smaller than desktop
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen1"
    Device     "Card1"
    Monitor    "Monitor1"
    DefaultDepth 24
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "2560x1600"
        ViewPort    0 0  # initial origin if mode is smaller than desktop
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection