Dual Monitors

[JimboC]

!!!Warning: Total Linux Newbie Alert!!!

I've got 2 video cards in my PC, a GeForce 4 Ti4400 AGP and 3Dfx Voodoo 4 4500 PCI. I've installed Mandrake 9.0 and it appears to see both cards, but I'm only getting video on the 3Dfx card and nothing on the GeForce 4 card.

The GeForce 4 card is the primary in the system, and Lilo comes up on this card as does the Linux boot screen, but as soon as KDE is loaded, the display switches to the 3Dfx card. Can anyone tell me if Linux supports multiple monitor setups and if so, how do I get the AGP card to display video?

I've tried downloading the latest driver from nVidia and as near as I can tell, it installed ok, but when I go into the hardware configuration it just shows the generic drivers. I'd be happy if I could get the GeForce 4 card working and the 3Dfx card didn't initialize if that's an option.

Any help or links to a tutorial would be very much appreciated. I've spent most of the day trying to figure this out and I've gotten nowhere.

[mdwatts]

A member just posted a howto in the 'How I did it' forum on dual monitors.

Also do a forum search in the same forum as there have been other articles posted in the past on setting up dual monitors.

[mdwatts]

I believe Alex Cavnar posted one in 'How I did it' on setting up two separate video cards.

[patocarr]

Check this out, it may be of some help.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO.html#toc10

Good luck,
-Pat

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Originally posted by mdwatts
I believe Alex Cavier posted one in 'How I did it' on setting up two separate video cards.

Cavier? I hate to get nitpicky, but it's CAVNAR.

:p
;)

[mdwatts]

Sorry about that AC. I knew I probably had it wrong to begin with, but at least I did mention your name to give you credit for the article. :)

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Originally posted by mdwatts
Sorry about that AC. I knew I probably had it wrong to begin with, but at least I did mention your name to give you credit for the article. :)

Yeah, that's why I said I didn't want to sound nitpicky.

I dunno... Sometimes I'm a little touchy about my name, maybe I shouldn't be. It's just that kids in school used to make fun of my last name by spelling it Caviar. People are stupid. I'm 20 now, so I think it's probably time I quit being touchy about this...

[mdwatts]

I could always go into your profile and change your name to Cavier. Would make it easier for me. :p