dual head on fedora

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Jim Patterson wrote:

> I was trying to set up a computer with dual head and install an ATI 9250 AGP 
> card and an ATI 9250 PCI card.  When I go to display and select Dual Head I 
> can setup the card resolution and Color Depth and the monitor, but even after 
> reboot the second screen still doesn't show anything.  It just stays blank. 
> Is there anything else I should look at.

Can you send the output of /var/log/Xorg.0.log and lspci ...

Does the agp card actually have dual ports (a vga and a dvi). how about 
the pci?

which card initializes first?

> following is xorg.conf
> --------------------------------------------
> # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>   Identifier     "Multihead layout"
>   Screen      0  "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
>   Screen      1  "Screen1" 0 0
>   InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>   InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>   Option        "Xinerama" "on"
>   Option        "Clone" "off"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
>
> # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the
> # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
> # no need to change the default.
> # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
> # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
> # the X server to render fonts.
>   RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
>   FontPath     "unix/:7100"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
>   Load  "dbe"
>   Load  "extmod"
>   Load  "fbdevhw"
>   Load  "glx"
>   Load  "record"
>   Load  "freetype"
>   Load  "type1"
>   Load  "dri"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>
> # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
> #    Option    "Xleds"        "1 2 3"
> # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
> #    Option    "XkbDisable"
> # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
> # lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
> # keyboard, you will probably want to use:
> #    Option    "XkbModel"    "pc102"
> # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
> #    Option    "XkbModel"    "microsoft"
> #
> # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
> # For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
> #    Option    "XkbLayout"    "de"
> # or:
> #    Option    "XkbLayout"    "de"
> #    Option    "XkbVariant"    "nodeadkeys"
> #
> # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
> # control keys, use:
> #    Option    "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:swapcaps"
> # Or if you just want both to be control, use:
> #    Option    "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:nocaps"
> #
>   Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>   Driver      "kbd"
>   Option        "XkbModel" "pc105"
>   Option        "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>   Identifier  "Mouse0"
>   Driver      "mouse"
>   Option        "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>   Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>   Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>   Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>   Identifier   "Monitor0"
>   VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>   ModelName    "G810-5"
>   DisplaySize  410    300
>   HorizSync    30.0 - 97.0
>   VertRefresh  50.0 - 180.0
>   Option        "dpms"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>   Identifier   "Monitor1"
>   VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>   ModelName    "KDS Visual Sensations VS-190/VS-195e/VS-195i"
>   HorizSync    30.0 - 95.0
>   VertRefresh  50.0 - 120.0
>   Option        "dpms"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>   Identifier  "Videocard0"
>   Driver      "radeon"
>   VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>   BoardName   "ATI Radeon 9200PRO"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>   Identifier  "Videocard1"
>   Driver      "radeon"
>   VendorName  "Videocard Vendor"
>   BoardName   "ATI Radeon 9200PRO"
>   BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
>   Screen      1
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>   Identifier "Screen0"
>   Device     "Videocard0"
>   Monitor    "Monitor0"
>   DefaultDepth     16
>   SubSection "Display"
>       Viewport   0 0
>       Depth     16
>       Modes    "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" 
> "800x600" "640x480"
>   EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>   Identifier "Screen1"
>   Device     "Videocard1"
>   Monitor    "Monitor1"
>   DefaultDepth     16
>   SubSection "Display"
>       Viewport   0 0
>       Depth     16
>       Modes    "1400x1050"
>   EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "DRI"
>   Group        0
>   Mode         0666
> EndSection
>
>
>

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