[lug] 2 video cards rh 7.2

[j davis]

COOL!!!
  It works! i used the info link you sent....easy!
i just had to figure out the location of the pci slot
my second video card is in. (0:12:0)My box is dual boot
so i used the windoz device manager to get that.
Thanks Alot!!

jd

>From: "D. Stimits" <stimits at idcomm.com>
>Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>Subject: Re: [lug] 2 video cards rh 7.2
>Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 00:35:37 -0700
>
>j davis wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >   I have a box running RedHat 7.2 the box has the defults except for
> > kde and lilo....anyway i have been trying to use two video cards without
> > any luck ...one card is ati radeon 64 sdr(agp 4x) other is a crappy
> > pci trident. My comp is dual boot and both cards work fine in win98
> > but in linux i can only get one or the other depending on how i set my 
>bios
> > (award bios on asus a7a266-alimagik). I have tried verious edits on
> > /etc/X11/XFree -4 ...(thats not the exact name of file but you get it  
>im
> > sure)...no luck. Can someone pleas help
>
>I have never had multiple monitors or cards on one machine, but had
>wanted to long ago, so looked into a few details. Some cards do not work
>well together, some do, looks like yours are at least capable of it.
>Some of the choices are multiple X11 servers on a single machine, one
>server for each card, they do not share a desktop. Another is Xinerama
>under XFree86 4.x, but this often requires much more similarity in video
>card chipset compatibility, e.g., the Oxygen VX-1 has both pci and agp
>versions that are actually intended just for this (well, for accurate
>OpenGL rendering, but their forte is not speed, instead it is stability
>running with up to 8 of them at once on a single machine). I think the
>NVidia AGP cards should work with the older TNT2 cards on the pci, at
>least for 1 TNT2, under Xinerama. A lot of other card combinations I
>think do not work under Xinerama. The Xi Graphics servers are supposed
>to handle multi-head quite well, but you might find they also have
>restrictions on which video chipsets work together (I haven't looked
>into that in a long time). If you do use Xinerama on XFree86 4.x, I
>think the bleeding edge is probably more likely to support your cards
>(still no guarantee, I have not looked at this in a long time).
>
>A URL you might find of interest:
>http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/linux/
>
>D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
>
> >
> > jd
> >
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