Triple head?
Thomas Cameron
thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Mon Jan 17 22:24:11 UTC 2011
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On 01/17/2011 04:19 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
> 2011/1/17 ????? <supergiantpotato at yahoo.co.jp>:
>> --- Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:
>>
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>>> Has anyone gotten three heads set up with Fedora? I
>>> figure it will
>>> require the proprietary driver, and while that is
>>> not optimal, I'm
>>> willing to do it. I really want to have three
>>> monitors set up.
>>>
>>> If so, how'd you do it?
>>
>> I installed Fedora 14 with just the VGA on-board video
>> running first, then plugged the others in after install...
>> and everything just worked on reboot. The only adjustment
>> needed was to place the screens in relation to one another
>> so that the layout made sense.
>
> I have a pair of NVidia cards (one PCIe, one PCI) which I do this
> with. The key components were:
>
> * Proprietary NVidia driver with TwinView enabled
> * Specifying the PCI ID manually in my xorg.conf
>
> What I lack is the ability to merge together the Dual-screen config on
> one card with the single screen on the other - so in actual fact I
> have 2 Xorg "Displays" and am unable to move windows from one to the
> other. That's not a big deal - you just end up adapting your workflow
> and keeping discrete apps on that one screen. If I enable Xinerama,
> Gnome crashes pretty hard on login.
>
> I have included my Xorg.conf below to give you some starting point. If
> you get Xinerama working, I'll be very interested.
>
> --
> Sam
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
> # nvidia-settings: version 260.19.29
> (mockbuild at hephaestus.wilsonet.com) Thu Dec 16 04:52:07 EST 2010
>
> # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
> # nvidia-xconfig: version 260.19.29 (mockbuild@) Thu Dec 16 05:03:59 EST 2010
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Layout0"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> Option "Xinerama" "0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>
> # generated from default
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "auto"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>
> # generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard"
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> VendorName "Unknown"
> ModelName "LG L1953S"
> HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
> VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
> Option "DPMS"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor1"
> VendorName "Unknown"
> ModelName "LG L1919S"
> HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
> VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Device0"
> Driver "nvidia"
> VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
> BoardName "Quadro NVS 55/280 PCI"
> BusID "PCI:3:2:0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Device1"
> Driver "nvidia"
> VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
> BoardName "Quadro NVS 285"
> BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Device0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth 24
> Option "TwinView" "1"
> Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
> Option "metamodes" "CRT-0: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0,
> CRT-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen1"
> Device "Device1"
> Monitor "Monitor1"
> DefaultDepth 24
> Option "TwinView" "0"
> Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
Thanks, Sam!
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