[NBLUG/talk] Dual Monitor configuration problem

[Rob Orsini]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 02:42, Justin Thiessen wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 07:13:49PM -0700, Rob Orsini wrote:
> > I am having problems getting both monitors working with a new RH9 box 
> > of mine.  I have two video cards: Nvidia (AGP) and a ATI (PCI).  I have 
> > confirmed that each card/monitor works on it's own with my system by 
> > switching the bios video setting between PCI and AGP.  I think my 
> > XF86config file is in pretty good shape in terms of the required 
> > sections. My current theory is that my system is looking in the wrong 
> > place for the second video card, but I really don't know what's going 
> > on.
> 
> Heya:
> 
> One final thought I just had:
> 
> Is it possible that your ATI card is in a PCI slot that shares an IRQ with
> another (such as, perhaps, your AGP slot)?
> 
> This is certainly possible with my $!#@$#% motherboard (Abit BP6). 
> 
> Just one more thing to think about.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Justin Thiessen


Kyle, Justin,

First of all, thank you very much for your ideas.

The bad news: I noticed some irq conflict message in dmesg and figured
that moving the ATI to another PCI slot might help.  I think this
cleared up the conflict as the error in dmesg went away.  So, then I
specified (PCI:1:0:0) for the Nvidia and (PCI:2:1:0) for the ATI card. 
I tried the other Nvidia driver as well.  Nothing seemed to work and I
really can't afford to spend anymore time ($$$) fighting the Nvidia/ATI
battle.

The good news:  Here at work I found a computer in the closet with a
Matrox G450 dual head card. "Borrowed" it, popped it in and swiped some
config lines form the web and BOOM!, it works. :)

As Kyle would say, "now I'm cooking with gas"  meaning my primary work
box is now Linux and I've got my precious two monitors working for me. 
I also figured out the problem I was having with gftp not connecting to
FreeBSD.  The solution to that was to 1) use passwordless ssh keys and
2) specify the path on the FreeBSD box to sftp-server.

Thanks again,
Rob