Now I have two working displays connected to my PC. My PC's motherboard still has one free PCI slot, which I might use for another video card and 3rd display in the future.
I ended up buying 2nd GeForce FX 5200, so now I have two FX 5200 cards, one having AGP interface and the other - PCI interface. The 17" display was moved to the PCI card, and the 20"/wide display (which I bought as well) is connected via the AGP interface. SVGA cables are used for both, although the new display has also DVI interface. I worked at few stages. First stage was to disconnect the 17" display and connect the 20" display to the AGP card. I invoked (in my Debian Etch system): dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg and it created /etc/X11/xorg.conf, which supports modes beyond 1280x1024 (namely 1680x1050, 1440x1440 and 1440x900). Then I inserted the second FX 5200, and after turning the PC back on, I ran lspci and manually edited the /etc/X11/xorg.conf according to instructions in http://www.linux.com/articles/113516 and invoked /etc/init.d/kdm restart (to restart the X-Window server). Once both displays worked, I invoked the Configure - KDE Control Module (in KDE 3.5: start menu/Settings/Peripherals/Display/Multiple Monitors), identified all displays (using the Identify All Displays button), and configured where I want to see unmanaged windows (in the display containing the pointer) and the splash screen (in the 20" display - display 2). The Multiple Monitor Support checked items were satisfactory for me, so I didn't change them. After backing up my manually edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, I ran again dpkg-reconfigure as above and noticed that the file version created by it overwrote my version of /etc/X11/xorg.conf. So I suppose that after each upgrade of the xserver-xorg package I'll have to revisit configuration. One problem I did not solve. I want to have the menu start button (in the left bottom corner of display 1) to appear in both displays - but did not find how to configure KDE 3.5 to do this. Thanks to Michael Tewner, Geoffrey S. Mendelson and Gilboa Davara who answered my questions, even though I did not use their answers after all. --- Omer -- My Commodore 64 is suffering from slowness and insufficiency of memory; and its display device is grievously short of pixels. Can anyone help? My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
