mikewho Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 i've got Mandrake 10.0 installed with 2.6 kernel my main card is Riva 2 M64 at AGP port, second and third card are S3 Trio64V2 all the cards are recognized in harddrake corectly the hardware configuration is OK, i've got windows installed too and all works just fine there (no irq or memory conflicts) i've tried the xf86cfg: configured alle the screens, monitors and cards as they should be, turned xinerama manual in xf config file but it still doesn't work - the monitors connected to the S3 cards are null (powered off) i've searched the web, all the info i found was tried. maybe there is something i could get from those infos? something like "Mandrake does do that, but the path/command is different of the standard one everyone else uses" please help PS: i'm new on linux, but not a total newbie ;) My xf config is as folows: # File generated by XFdrake. # ********************************************************************** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ********************************************************************** Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" Screen 0 "screen1" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen2" RightOf "screen1" Screen 2 "Screen3" RightOf "Screen2" Option "Xinerama" "On" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" EndSection 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 "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer EndSection Section "ServerFlags" #DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort) # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work #DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching) Option "allowmouseopenfail" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "Keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "pl" Option "XkbOptions" "" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Monitor" # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Generic" ModelName "1280x1024 @ 76 Hz" HorizSync 31.5 - 82.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 90.0 ModeLine "1024x480" 65.0 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync ModeLine "768x576" 50.0 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 ModeLine "768x576" 63.1 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor2" HorizSync 31.5 - 37.9 VertRefresh 50.0 - 70.0 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor3" HorizSync 31.5 - 37.9 VertRefresh 50.0 - 70.0 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" Driver "nv" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "RIVA TNT2" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device2" Driver "s3" ChipSet "Trio32/64" Card "s3 Trio32/64" ChipId 0x0 ChipRev 0x0 BusID "PCI:0:9:0" IRQ 0 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device3" Driver "s3" ChipSet "Trio32/64" Card "s3 Trio32/64" ChipId 0x0 ChipRev 0x0 BusID "PCI:0:11:0" IRQ 0 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Virtual 1152 864 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Virtual 1152 864 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Virtual 1152 864 Depth 16 Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Virtual 1152 864 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen2" Device "device2" Monitor "Monitor2" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Black 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 White 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 Modes "640x480" "800x600" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen3" Device "device3" Monitor "Monitor3" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Black 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 White 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 Modes "640x480" "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Black 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 White 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 Modes "640x480" "800x600" EndSubSection EndSection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 it looks good! when X starts it writes a log to /var/log/XF86.....log Im guessing but perhaps the S3 cards cant find a valid resulution/timing... this would be indicated in the log also add the busID to the NV card! lspci should give it... its probably 1:0.0 or similar... if its AGP also try copying your file and make a sperate one for just one S3 card.... see if you can get it working then copy the stuff to your 3 head config. I always make copies like XF86Config-4.3head and XF86Config-4-projector-flatscreen etc. you can test diffeent ones by XFree86 -xf86config /etc/X11/<filename> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikewho Posted June 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 thanks for the help ! i've got it running thanks to you the thing was with the busid, just like you said i wrote the pci:1:0:0 for the nv section (it does stand for agp) and first s3 card got working - still no picture on the second one the second s3 card had a wrong busid set to pci:0:11:0 as it was in the harddrake tool, but in the XF86Config it should be 0:17:0 (hex/decimal translation) i saw it in the log :D now all it is left to do is to change the resolutions and refresh rates - i hope it doesn't have to be the same on all monitors? it does 800x600@56 on all (with no additional config in this point of time) ive got one 17" which goes 1152x768@85, and two 14" - only 800x600@75 (1024 is very ugly on 14") ________________________________ LiNUX does RULES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 oops.... Great .... (Oh and welcome to MUB of course) No the resolutions can be independant BUT the colour depth must be the same for xinerama Remember to play with the gnome KDE panel to stop it dissapearing off the bottom of screen 2..... Also if you do want different colour depths you can use seperate X displays... I used to have a 3 head setup where X:0.0 was a Xinerama display and X:0.1 was a seperate (as it happends S3 running 800x600) on a 14" The third screen was used extensively for logging and stuff.... You could have the opposite , that is 2x800x600 giving 1600x600 Xinerama on the 14" and your nv one too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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