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I would like to know too. I think it only works if the card has two outlets though, cause I have a PCI gfx card and a motherboard one too, and only the PCI one gets a signal. Maybe I need to configure it?

Yes, XFree and KDE support multiple monitors.
Just add the xinerama option to XFree config.

Is the card enabled in bios?
If so what is the output of the lspci command?

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I would like to know too. I think it only works if the card has two outlets though, cause I have a PCI gfx card and a motherboard one too, and only the PCI one gets a signal. Maybe I need to configure it?

This is going to sound really stupid, but I'm new to linux (installed Mandrake 9.1 last night) and I'm wondering how you do something like add Xinerama to XFree?
Is there a GUI? If not, how do I do it?

Sorry if I sound like a total moron, I'm really trying to learn but it's taking time.

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Francis

Hey Asbel:

For general howto questions a good resource is linuxdocs.org or tldp.org. Here is a article form linuxdocs on setting up and using xinerama:

http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Xinerama-HOWTO.html#toc7

Good luck and post back here if you have any questions.

Okay, I had a friend screw with my XF86Config-4 and I got the NVidia driver installed and told my XF86Config-4 to use it, and the result was a nice NVidia logo as KDE was loading and a great big desktop on one monitor. I had to bring the mouse to the edges of the screen to scroll around, and there's still nothing on the second monitor. I'm wondering if it's some kind of hardware addressing problem, being a dual-port video card (GeForce 4 TI4600) and not two seperate cards. Perhaps it also has something to do with the second port being DVI rather than VGA?
Any suggestions? Has anyone managed to get this working?

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Francis

Hi,
xinerama support is allready compiled into MDK. Take a look here: http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/linux/mandrake8/
If you want to calculate some modlines for your XF86Config take a look here: http://www.zaph.com/Modeline/ (you will just need to set frequenzy and resolution. leave the other field as they are if you don't know what they are doing)

Dim

If I were to post my XF86Config-4 here could someone take a look at it? I'm in XP at the moment so I can't do it now, but would it be at all useful?

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Francis

Well, I've got only one monitor, but let's give it a try.

Dim

Post your config and we will have a look.

Heh, this is embarrassing, but I completely screwed up KDE last night so I'm going to reinstall Mandrake 9.1 tonight and get it the way I had it before, hopefully then I'll be able to post my XF86Config.

I really appreciate the help, so far the linux community has been nothing but exceptional.

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Francis

This is my current X86Config-4 file. I've commented out the stuff that I added that didn't work.
My video card is a GeForce 4 ti4600 with two ports, and for now I'm trying Xinerama because I know next to nothing about TwinView (from NVidia)

Any input would be wonderful.

Here's my XF86Config-4 file, I've commented out the stuff I added because obviously it wasn't working. I haven't tried to setup TwinView, only Xinerama at this point, so if anyone could give me some TwinView pointers I'd love it... perhaps even some code that fits into my config? :-)


Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn
#Option "Xinerama" "on"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbCompat" ""
Option "XkbOptions" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "BigOne"
VendorName "ViewSonic"
ModelName "ViewSonic PF795"
HorizSync 30-110
VertRefresh 50-180
EndSection

#Section "Monitor"
#Identifier "LittleOne"
#VendorName "Samsung"
#ModelName "SyncMaster 152B"
#HorizSync 30-60
#VertRefresh 50-75
#EndSection

# Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)?
# 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync
# ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -h

# TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
# 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
# ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630

# 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
# ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616

Section "Device"
Identifier "NVidiaCard"
VendorName "NVidia"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"
Driver "nv"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "NVidiaCard"
Monitor "BigOne"
DefaultColorDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
EndSection

#Section "Screen"
#Identifier "screen2"
#Device "NvidiaCard"
#Monitor "LittleOne"
#DefaultColorDepth 24

#Subsection "Display"
#Depth 24
#Modes "1024x768"
#EndSubsection
#EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen1"
#Screen "Screen2" LeftOf "Screen1"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
EndSection