[lug] 2 video cards rh 7.2

[Harris, James]

In the future, try using:
lspci
to identify which slot a PCI/AGP device is in.

-----Original Message-----
From: j davis [mailto:davis_compz at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:44
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: Re: [lug] 2 video cards rh 7.2



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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