Xinerama 2 cards 3 monitors: GF8400 GS + GF6200

[stormp]

I cannot get Xinerama to work.

I have Ubuntu 9.04 64bit with the nvidia 185.18.14 driver with 2 video cards. PCI-e GF-8400 GS and a PCI GF-6200.

Using nvidia-settings I am able to set three monitors as separate X screens or two monitors on Twinview and and 1 separate X screen. When I enable Xinerama GDM freezes on boot. There are no errors reported in the xorg.0.log file.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

this is works - but no xinerama:

xorg.conf

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder62)  Wed May 27 01:59:40 PDT 2009

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "LG StudioWorks 995E"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 96.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 160.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor1"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "ViewSonic"
    HorizSync       31.5 - 64.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 85.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 8400 GS"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device1"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 6200"
    BusID          "PCI:5:3:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
    Option         "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x1024_85 +1680+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; DFP: 1600x1024 +0+0; DFP: 1440x900 +0+0; DFP: 1400x1050 +0+0; DFP: 1400x1050_60 +0+0; DFP: 1360x768 +0+0; DFP: 1360x768_60_0 +0+0; DFP: 1280x1024 +0+0; DFP: 1280x1024_60 +0+0; DFP: 1280x960 +0+0; DFP: 1152x864 +0+0; DFP: 1152x864_75_0 +0+0; DFP: 1152x864_70 +0+0; DFP: 1152x864_60 +0+0; DFP: 1024x768 +0+0; DFP: 1024x768_70 +0+0; DFP: 1024x768_60 +0+0; DFP: 960x600 +0+0; DFP: 960x540 +0+0; DFP: 840x525 +0+0; DFP: 840x525d60 +0+0; DFP: 840x525d60_0 +0+0; DFP: 832x624 +0+0; DFP: 800x600 +0+0; DFP: 800x600_72 +0+0; DFP: 800x600_60 +0+0; DFP: 800x600_56 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen1"
    Device         "Device1"
    Monitor        "Monitor1"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "1280x1024_60 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

[stormp]

*bump*

Is it even possible currently to have a PCI-E & PCI Nvidia cards working proper together?

[AaronP]

Please see the forum sticky posts about how to report a problem.

[ckrough]

Please submit an nvidia-bug (http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678) log so that we can see where the error is occurring. This sounds like the same problem as

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=134605

[stormp]

*SOLVED*

Replaced my PCI card with newer matching GPU (GF-8400 GS)

Now I have 4 displays on 2 gpu's

-i guess money solves all :-P

[toxn]

Same problem here with Fedora11 + 6200TC (PCIe) and 8200 (PCIe integrated).