Brian Parish wrote:
Just loaded Core 3 and all seems fairly smooth except for setting up dual monitors. I have an PCI and a AGP card installed, but it looks very much like the AGP card is not being detected.I have the same problem with trying to get dual-head working in FC3. For some reason dual-head support is getting harder to get working.
Tried booting a live CD and it found both cards, but system-config-display sees only one card. Tried manually setting up xorg.conf using the bus ID detected using the live CD, but of course this is ignored because the card doesn't exist as far as the current system is concerned.
Is there a utility I can use to scan the bus and attempt to force recognition of the second card? Any suggestions welcome.
TIA Brian
Some people have installed the FC2 version of xorg-x11 and were able to get dual-head to work again. Others, like me are having fits with different combinations of video cards and being disappoined with the lack of a working dual-head configuration.
Rawhide (FC4 development) is even worse, the second card is not even listed in the choices when using system-config-display to attempt to configure dual head.
In my case, I have an internal Intel 815 card. If I add a PCI video card like an ATI or a Radeon 7200, I get memory address overlaps. This causes server lockups attempting dual-head and also causes reduced resolution capability for my internal 815 card.
I now have the internal 815 graphics controller and an AGP nvidia video card in this computer and the nvidia does not show in the lspci listing when the card is set as the primary or the internal video card is set to primary.
In my findings, I found that some computers disable the internal card if you try adding an AGP card, but allow the internal and a PCI card to function in a dual display configuration. The strange aspect is that the Intel 815 is listed in the output of lspci when the nvidia card is set to primary.
Anyway, I think that you might be out of luck at this stage for FC3 to be able to configure your system for dual-display. Post the output of lspci -v and those woth actual working dual-display setups might be able to figure out the pecularities that might be preventing your ability to get dual-display working.
Sorry I have no answers. Older xorg-x11 version might work.
Jim
