[NBLUG/talk] Setting up X on a secondary video card

[Christopher Wagner]

The TNT2, if I recall correctly, falls under the purview of the legacy
nVidia drivers.  I would bear that in mind when poking about at the nv
driver.  I've not poked at too many nVidia cards, though.

It is odd, though, that the Radeon would come up as "unknown".  I would
investigate ATI's driver offerings, I use the proprietary driver on my
9800 Pro, and have achieved worthwhile results.  Though, it's important
that you not have tried to install any other ATI driver package or
somesuch first (or make sure you remove it carefully and completely first).

On another note (which I covered briefly at my accessibility talk), a
quick way to get your xorg.conf file set with appropriate Bus IDs and
such is 'X -configure'.  It is *very* useful and will frequently detect
and set-up multi-head configurations which you can then modify to your
heart's content.  I found this useful when setting up multi-head systems
with having a secondary display being used for magnification of the
primary display (yay for Gnopernicus and gnomemag!).

Hope that helps! :)

- Chris

Lincoln Peters wrote:

>On Tuesday 27 December 2005 09:58 pm, thiessen at sonic.net wrote:
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>>(1)  Does your xorg.conf file really read:
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>>         BusID           "PCI:1:13:0"
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>>When "X -scanpci" tells you that the card is at 0:13:0  ?
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>It seems that I typed in the wrong BusID.  I corrected the BusID and it 
>worked.
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>Almost feels like I temporarily forgot how to read...
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>>(2)  I don't know how well the vga driver plays with the TNT2 video card.
>>     Try the "nv" driver instead.
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>I can tell you now that it plays well, although since it *is* the vga driver, 
>the results are rather unimpressive.  I will experiment with the nv driver, 
>though.
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