Forgive the long message, but I want to cover everything I've tried and want to know if there's anything else I can attempt to rectify my issue. First, some background.
I have been running 3 screens successfully with the nvidia binary driver for some time. This was done using the Base Mosaic mode that nvidia added to their drivers about a year ago. This method allowed me to have 3 monitors act as one screen under X. Two were attached to the primary card and the third to the second. As an admin and a programmer I've found my vertical space limited and added a fourth 24" screen in portrait mode so that I can run vim on it to code. I won't go into the merits of doing so, though suffice it to say, once I tried it... I never want to go back. So here's my problem. I figured that I could simply add another nvidia card to drive the fourth monitor without affecting the Base Mosaic mode on the first three monitors. This turns out, is not an option as the driver explicitly states that only one screen is allowed when running Base Mosaic and it happily disables the second screen. [1] After attempting many different configurations through xorg.conf, I could not come up with a method to run the desired setup. Then I attempted to run an ATI video card for the fourth monitor and upon bootup it was not detected. Not listed in lspci. I then grabbed another ATI card in case the first was simply broken. Same result. So now I am simply running with the original two nvidia cards with the binary blob and each screen attached to one output on each card (2 monitors per card). This is simply a 4 screen X server without the ability to move windows between monitors which is not ideal. I have included links to my original xorg.conf [2] setup as well as the original Xorg.0.log [1] when the fourth monitor was being disabled. If anyone here has any better ideas on how I can approach this situation, I'm all ears. In the interests of brevity, some details were left out, but are all demonstrated through the links to my Xorg.0.log [1] link and the link to my xorg.conf [2] file. [1] http://paste.debian.net/10492/ [2] http://paste.debian.net/10491/ -- Dan Serban -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130621111845.00c78...@ws77.int.tlc
