[lug] X with duel monitors problem

jdavis mohadib at ns2.taproot.bz
Mon Jan 6 14:01:55 MST 2003


I would agree with Shannon,  I have done multi-mon with and without
xinerama using a nvidia based card and a trident card.


On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 11:38, Shannon Johnston wrote:
> I'm currently running a multihead display (with Xinerama) using 2
> different cards, different chipsets and one AGP, one PCI. I would point
> more toward the S3 chip being your problem than just the fact that you
> are using cards from different manufacturers. 
> 
> Have you tried making the S3 card the primary display?
> 
> Shannon
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 10:31, Harris, James wrote:
> > > Does anyone have experience with duel monitor support who could advise
> > > me??
> > 
> > My experience with this is rusty, but use of two different brands of card
> > used to be highly discouraged.  If you have availability to something like
> > an old PCI based TNT2 card or another PCI card that's made by nVidia, I
> > would see if your experience would differ.
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