off topic but. Is it possible to have a console on one monitor and X on another if you have a dual head card?
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 20:43 +0000, George Bingham wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I've just installed 2.4.26. I have two graphics cards, each has a
> monitor, my primary display is an old ATI (Rage 128), and the other
> one is an NVidia GEforce 2. I have X installed and working with the
> KDE desktop using the ATI card & it's monitor. I have not been able to
> get the nvidia display to work yet.
>
> I've emeged nvidia, and have the module loaded (it shows as being
> 'unused'). I've also edited the xorg.conf file so that it knows about
> both displays.
>
> In Linux before I've started X, the nvidia display is not active at
> all, not sure if it would be used by linux before X starts or not.
>
> Here's a few relevent pieces of my xorg.conf file:
>
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen 1"
> Device "** ATI Rage 128 based (generic) [r128]"
> Monitor "Envision"
> DefaultDepth 24
>
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 8
> Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen 2"
> Device "NVidia"
> Monitor "NEC"
> DefaultDepth 24
>
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 8
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> EndSection
>
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks,
>
> George Bingham
>
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