twinview

I just upgraded to 10 and cannot get twinhead monitors on 1 videocard to
work. I used to have the option of adding the second channel as a new
video card, but I cant find / forgot where to do this.

Any pointers will help.

tinkerbelle <tinkerbelle @ rhima.co.uk> wrote in newsPXrf.1338
$012.985@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com:

> Any pointers will help.

sax2 ?

Uwe

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Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:

> tinkerbelle <tinkerbelle @ rhima.co.uk> wrote in newsPXrf.1338
> $012.985@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com:
>
>> Any pointers will help.
>
> sax2 ?
>
> Uwe
>
yep been there, the correct card is shown, with 1 tab for display 1, under
the options there are 53 possabilities with no help about what does what,
though some are obvious as to what they are if not to what to set them to.

Under 9.3 I had to add the 2nd channel as a new video card but cannot find
that as an option now.

tinkerbelle adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:

> Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:
>
>> tinkerbelle <tinkerbelle @ rhima.co.uk> wrote in newsPXrf.1338
>> $012.985@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com:
>>
>>> Any pointers will help.
>>
>> sax2 ?
>>
>> Uwe
>>
> yep been there, the correct card is shown, with 1 tab for display 1,
> under the options there are 53 possabilities with no help about what
> does what, though some are obvious as to what they are if not to what
> to set them to.
>
> Under 9.3 I had to add the 2nd channel as a new video card but cannot
> find that as an option now.

Tinkerbele,

What graphics card?

With the Nvidia driver you use Yast>Hardware>Graphics card & Monitor,
and if you click on the button for the card you will see a load of
"Options" which your driver will allow, here right at the bottom is the
twinview setting which I presume will then allow for the second monitor
to be configured.

HTH
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baskitcaise wrote:

> tinkerbelle adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:
>
>> Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:
>>
>>> tinkerbelle <tinkerbelle @ rhima.co.uk> wrote in newsPXrf.1338
>>> $012.985@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com:
>>>
>>>> Any pointers will help.
>>>
>>> sax2 ?
>>>
>>> Uwe
>>>
>> yep been there, the correct card is shown, with 1 tab for display 1,
>> under the options there are 53 possabilities with no help about what
>> does what, though some are obvious as to what they are if not to what
>> to set them to.
>>
>> Under 9.3 I had to add the 2nd channel as a new video card but cannot
>> find that as an option now.
>
> Tinkerbele,
>
> What graphics card?
>
> With the Nvidia driver you use Yast>Hardware>Graphics card & Monitor,
> and if you click on the button for the card you will see a load of
> "Options" which your driver will allow, here right at the bottom is the
> twinview setting which I presume will then allow for the second monitor
> to be configured.
>
> HTH
It is an FX5900 and the twinview option is not setable, it is there though
and I have upgraded the nv driver to the nvidia one.

tinkerbelle <tinkerbelle @ rhima.co.uk> wrote in
news:bFasf.1617$012.5@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com:

> It is an FX5900 and the twinview option is not setable, it is there
> though and I have upgraded the nv driver to the nvidia one.

You could try Yanc:
http://www.ygriega.de/index.php?id=2&detail=1

Uwe

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Uwe Buckesfeld wrote:

> tinkerbelle <tinkerbelle @ rhima.co.uk> wrote in
> news:bFasf.1617$012.5@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com:
>
>> It is an FX5900 and the twinview option is not setable, it is there
>> though and I have upgraded the nv driver to the nvidia one.
>
> You could try Yanc:
> http://www.ygriega.de/index.php?id=2&detail=1
>
> Uwe
>
Thanks for the link to Yanc, but yank falls over I think due to obsolete swt
library files which seem to be hard coded, I have mailed to author for
clarification.

In the meantime I have been delving around in backup files and found the
XF86Config and Xorg.conf from the 9.3 install and both displays now work,
even Sax2 can display the details. I'm not sure if it is safe to use these
files or if I should fire up Sax2 and save the config as the version
numbers are different.

tinkerbelle adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:

> Thanks for the link to Yanc, but yank falls over I think due to
> obsolete swt library files which seem to be hard coded, I have mailed
> to author for clarification.
>
> In the meantime I have been delving around in backup files and found
> the XF86Config and Xorg.conf from the 9.3 install and both displays
> now work, even Sax2 can display the details. I'm not sure if it is
> safe to use these files or if I should fire up Sax2 and save the
> config as the version numbers are different.

Unless the hardware has changed then an older xorg.conf will work fine.

If it ain`t broke... ;-)

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tinkerbelle <tinkerbelle @ rhima.co.uk> wrote in
news:rcvsf.2165$012.1337@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com:

> In the meantime I have been delving around in backup files and found
> the XF86Config and Xorg.conf from the 9.3 install and both displays
> now work, even Sax2 can display the details. I'm not sure if it is
> safe to use these files or if I should fire up Sax2 and save the
> config as the version numbers are different.

You have a backup! How cool is that! <G>
The files should work safely as long as the hardware is identical, the
worst thing could be that the X server crashes.

Uwe

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