jkw
05-30-06, 11:29 PM
Folks,
I have a PNY Quadro NVS 440 PCI x16 card in a dual-core Athlon64
box. The box is running a vanilla install of Debian etch i386 (NOT
x86_64). The kernel is 2.6.15-686-smp. The box has the current
Xorg 6.9 that comes with etch, and I successfully configured the card
to display in Xinerama mode with the nvidia-xconfig utility (these
parameters are from memory, the box isn't up right now so I can't
check the man page):
nvidia-xconfig --enable-all-gpus --separate-x-screens --xinerama-on
I got what I wanted, four monitors in a row, left to right, as a single
merged display. Unfortunately, it locks hard within a few minutes of
use. Xorg ends up using 99.9% of one core on the CPU and has to
be killed by logging into the box via SSH and doing a kill -9. Does any
kind soul here have experience with a similar setup? I'm looking for
any sort of resource right now.
NOTE: I can't seem to get all 4 monitors displaying in "twinview"
mode, it just enables two "pairs" of monitors as merged displays and
then clones across those. Does anyone have a working xorg.conf
file that doesn't use Xinerama but still drives a 4-monitor merged
display? I thought perhaps the Xinerama might be introducing some
instability into the situation...
thanks,
Jim
I have a PNY Quadro NVS 440 PCI x16 card in a dual-core Athlon64
box. The box is running a vanilla install of Debian etch i386 (NOT
x86_64). The kernel is 2.6.15-686-smp. The box has the current
Xorg 6.9 that comes with etch, and I successfully configured the card
to display in Xinerama mode with the nvidia-xconfig utility (these
parameters are from memory, the box isn't up right now so I can't
check the man page):
nvidia-xconfig --enable-all-gpus --separate-x-screens --xinerama-on
I got what I wanted, four monitors in a row, left to right, as a single
merged display. Unfortunately, it locks hard within a few minutes of
use. Xorg ends up using 99.9% of one core on the CPU and has to
be killed by logging into the box via SSH and doing a kill -9. Does any
kind soul here have experience with a similar setup? I'm looking for
any sort of resource right now.
NOTE: I can't seem to get all 4 monitors displaying in "twinview"
mode, it just enables two "pairs" of monitors as merged displays and
then clones across those. Does anyone have a working xorg.conf
file that doesn't use Xinerama but still drives a 4-monitor merged
display? I thought perhaps the Xinerama might be introducing some
instability into the situation...
thanks,
Jim