bill.omer@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a dual head nvidia agp card, and a dual head ati pci card. I'm
> trying to get them working together, but not having much luck.
>
> I wrote my own xorg.conf file and got dual head from the nvidia cards,
> but I can not get a single head (or both) from the ati card to work.

When using the closed source drivers, you get best result that you use
the drivers built in dual view mode. Each driver package comes with a
configuration tool, run it, store the config to an alternative file,
then merge the settings in one file.

Don't forget that using dual view will decrease the performance of the
graphics card (Your quake won't get as much fps as it would do in single
view).

In your case I think your AMD graphics card isn't supported by the open
source driver.

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//Aho

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:35:01 +0200, J.O. Aho wrote:

> bill.omer@gmail.com wrote:
>> I have a dual head nvidia agp card, and a dual head ati pci card. I'm
>> trying to get them working together, but not having much luck.
>>
>> I wrote my own xorg.conf file and got dual head from the nvidia cards,
>> but I can not get a single head (or both) from the ati card to work.
>
> When using the closed source drivers, you get best result that you use
> the drivers built in dual view mode. Each driver package comes with a
> configuration tool, run it, store the config to an alternative file,
> then merge the settings in one file.
>
> Don't forget that using dual view will decrease the performance of the
> graphics card (Your quake won't get as much fps as it would do in single
> view).
>
> In your case I think your AMD graphics card isn't supported by the open
> source driver.

Latest news on that linked from here:

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?.../06/19/2113242

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> bill.omer@gmail.com wrote:
>> I have a dual head nvidia agp card, and a dual head ati pci card. I'm
>> trying to get them working together, but not having much luck.
>> I wrote my own xorg.conf file and got dual head from the nvidia cards,
>> but I can not get a single head (or both) from the ati card to work.
[snip]
> In your case I think your AMD graphics card isn't supported by the open
> source driver.

Wrong.

You snipped this bit:

>> 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01)
>> 04:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary) (rev 01)

That's R200 series, which is supported.

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