Multiple Video Cards and Monitors - Dapper

[Brian McKee]

Hi All

	I've been trying to get a multiple monitor/video card setup working  
on my Dapper box.

I have an nVidia GeForce 2 with SVGA out, and either a 3dfx Voodoo 3  
or an SiS Virge card to work with.  All of the three cards work fine  
when installed and configured individually.  Yes I know it's hardly  
state of the art hardware, but it's what I've got to work with  
currently.

I first attempted Xinerama (one big desktop) but X just crashes.   I  
took my problem to the Xorg mailing list but got zero response.
<http://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-xorg&m=118218324326044&w=1>   If  
anybody here has troubleshooting suggestions I'm all ears.  (it is  
Dapper not Feisty as posted there if that matters)

I've fallen back on the idea of using both cards simultaneously but  
separately - i.e.  run GDM on the 3dfx and then start a program like  
Freevo (or whatever) directly on the nVidia card independent of the  
GDM X session.   How do I do that?   I'm guessing I start X with a  
separate xorg.conf file but the syntax to do so and point that X  
session at the second card isn't obvious to me.  Can someone point me  
in the right direction?

Comments appreciated.


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