Fedora 9, multi-monitor, multi-card woes
Phil Meyer
pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com
Tue Jun 24 21:45:43 UTC 2008
Jeffrey M. Hardy wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> From FC1 to F8 inclusive, I have used the same hardware to have a
> fully-spanned desktop using three cards across four monitors. Rather
> than being too ambitious at the moment, I am merely trying to get
> three separate non-cloned desktops across three different cards. Here
> is lspci output:
>
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17GL [Quadro
> NVS] (rev a3)
> 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2
> MX/MX 400] (rev b2)
> 05:01.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2
> MX/MX 400] (rev b2)
We see that a lot here. What is happening is that no single driver will
handle both of those cards. Your choices are:
1. (recommended) dump the $20.00 MX 400 for something made this century. :)
2. run both the legacy and the new nvidia drivers. This is a REAL PITA
and takes a level of expertise nearing black magic to make work. If you
are not a wizard class admin, don't attempt it. :)
When my users bring be machines with mismatched junk video cards to
install, I tell them strait up that for the time it would take to make
it work, I could make enough money to buy a new top of the line Nvidia
or ATI card.
Think about it.
Good Luck!
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