[lug] X with duel monitors problem

[Warren Raquel]

Ditch the S3. It has something to do with the card running in VGA mode. In 
order for multi-heading to work the card needs to be able to turn of VGA 
mode in order to run as a secondary head. S3s don't play well like that so 
they stay on the whole time confusing the system and fighting for control. 
At least, that's what I've been told. I've tested with 3 different S3 cards 
and I never got multi-heading to work, a shame since I would have had 4 
screens. I had one other card available, the Matrox Millenium 2. That 
worked like a charm and still does. I would say you need to find out how to 
turn off VGA mode on your S3 card. If you can do that you're home free, I 
think, if not, get on eBbay and get something else.

At 10:02 AM 12/29/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm try to set up multiple moniters/vid cards on my system.
>I'm using an NVIDIA GF-2 and an S3 card.
>Either card works fine independently BUT when I try to start them
>together it freezes X, keyboard, and mouse.One monitor goes black and
>the other will start the standard xinit screen.
>
>I have to SSH from another machine and kill X or do a hard restart to
>get the system functioning again.
>
>the Nvidia card is AGP and the S3 is PCI. I've tried switching between
>the two cards in the bios with similar results.
>
>  I would like to run them as two separate monitors/windows managers and
>not use the xinerama option.
>
>  Also the Nvidia card has a TV out which I do not use, but I don't tell
>X this in the config file and don't think it has any thing to do with
>the problem, just thought I'd mention that.
>
>Does anyone have experience with duel monitor support who could advise
>me??
>
>Thanks!
>
>Paul Nowosielski
>
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