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Date:      Fri, 16 May 2008 11:12:40 +0200
From:      Baptiste Grenier <baptiste.grenier@healthgrid.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Xorg with multiple cards
Message-ID:  <20080516091240.GC30936@healthgrid.org>
In-Reply-To: <482C5B8E.2000000@collaborativefusion.com>
References:  <482C5B8E.2000000@collaborativefusion.com>

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Le 15/05/08 =E0 18:02, Mike Ginsburg t=E9l=E9scripta :
> A question to all of your xorg experts.
>
> I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8 with xorg-7.3.1.  Up until today I was=
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> running on an PCIe RV280 (9200 Pro) with a dvi splitter to give me 2=20
> monitors.
>
> Today I added a 2nd PCI card (Radeon 9260) over VGA.  For the life of me =
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> can't seem to configure my xorg.conf to work with the 2nd card and 3rd=20
> monitor.  I have attached a tarball with my working xorg.conf, and my=20
> attempts at configuring the 2nd card (xorg.conf.broken).
>
> Any and all help is appreciated.  If you need more information, please fe=
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> free to ask and I'll provide it.  Thank you.

Hello,

Here is the revelant parts of the configuration I was using with a PCI-E
Nvidia card for two monitors (DVI+VGA) and a PCI ATI card for the third
monitor:

--------------------8<-----------------------------------------------------=
----

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen         0  "Screen0" 0 0
    Screen         1 "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
    Screen         2 "Screen2" RightOf "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "1"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "FP202W 0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "BenQ FP202W"
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "FP202W 1"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "BenQ FP202W"
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier   "SyncMaster 730BF"
  HorizSync    30-81
  VertRefresh  60
  Option       "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "7300 0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 7300 GS"
    BusId          "PCI:1:0:0"
    Screen         0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "7300 1"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 7300 GS"
    BusId          "PCI:1:0:0"
    Screen         1
EndSection

Section "Device"
  Driver      "ati"
  Identifier  "ATI RageXL"
  BusId       "PCI:6:17:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "7300 0"
    Monitor        "FP202W 0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1680x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen1"
    Device         "7300 1"
    Monitor        "FP202W 1"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1680x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  Identifier "Screen2"
  Device     "ATI RageXL"
  Monitor    "SyncMaster 730BF"
  DefaultDepth     24
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth     24
    Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
EndSection

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I'm not sure, but you could probably do something like this with your two A=
TI cards.

HTH,
Baptiste

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