Re: Will Multi-Monitor work with my setup?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

On 09/22/2010 01:37 PM, Andreas Ronnquist wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:12:03 -0500
> Kent West<westk@acu.edu>  wrote:
>
>    
> > Off-and-on for the past two years I've had multi-display working; for
> > the past year, nada. It worked until an update on my Sid box.
> >
> > Since then, I've tried wiping my drive and reinstalling Stable, and
> > swapping out between my three available cards.
> >
> > A lot of the problem is that I don't know what's the current way to do
> > things; I used to use Xinerama, but that's been deprecated, and the docs
> > I've found on xRandR don't answer the questions I have, etc. Another
> > part of the problem may be that I've got old video cards (but they used
> > to work!!!).
> >
> >
> >      
> Hi!
>
> I have a fully working dual-screen setup, but I am using the
> closed-source binary blob, downloaded directly from Nvidia - I don't
> know if that is an option for you. Also, I am on testing, and not
> unstable, but the differences shouldn't be very big nowadays if I
> understand things correctly.
>
> I have an xorg.conf setup that I have used on several cards - currently
> on an 7950GT, previously on an 8600gts, and if my memory serves me
> well, I used it for dualscreen on my previos Geforce 4Ti also.
>
> I attach my xorg.conf, maybe you can get something useful out of it.
>
> xrandr -q reports only one screen, even if it is a dual screen setup:
>
> xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
> Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 2560 x 1024, maximum 2560 x 1024
> default connected 2560x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm
>     2560x1024      50.0*
>     1280x1024      51.0
>     2048x768       52.0
>     1024x768       53.0
>     1600x600       54.0
>     800x600        55.0
>     640x480        56.0
>
> (and the frequencies all wrong).
>
> Hope this helps somewhat. Take a look at my xorg.conf and you might get
> something useful out of it.
>
> best regards
>    

No; I tried copying/pasting some of your config into mine (making 
necessary changes, as far as I can tell), but I can't even get X to 
start with that config.

Now that I'm responding to your post, I almost have a vague recollection 
of seeing somewhere that the current X drivers no longer support more 
than one video card, so it may be that I'll have to replace my two cards 
with a single dual-head card in order to get multi-display support back. 
If that's true, it frustrates me, because it seems like Debian thus is 
losing capability. (Although I fully understand the need to sometimes 
just "cut the cord" on old legacy technology.)

But it does help that you told me that xrandr -q only reports one screen 
even in a dual-screen setup. Thanks!

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