Anyone? Thanks, Mark
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I'm wondering what experience (and hopefully guidance) others can > provide to hopefully fix these new problems on my compute server. > Thanks in advance. > > OK, yesterday I added a second NVidia adapter to my machine and > used nvidia-settings to create a new xorg.conf file. (Both new and old > are shown at the end) The new setup came up easily and I now have 3 > monitors. Here's the setup: > > GTX 465 port 0 -> GPU-0 + DFP-0 > GTX 465 port 1 -> GPU-0 + DFP-2 > > 8400GS port 0 -> GPU-1 + CRT-1 > > To get this working I had to enable the xinerama use flag as well > as enable Xinerama in xorg.conf. > > Some simple tests of functionality: > > 1) glxgears is functional on all 3 displays but only draws actual > graphics on the two GTX465 monitors. It draws a black window on the > 8400GS. It is my understanding that this is expected. > > 2) Both Virtualbox and VMWare VM's work fine on all 3 monitors. If the > VMs are running Windows then Flash, Java & Silverlight seem to work > fine on any display. I can play NetFlix movies and run other Windows > apps from within the VMs without any major problems so far. > > Problems: > > 1) Adobe flash within Linux is not working at some websites, such as: > > http://www.jigsawdoku.com/ > > For this page the flash game area is just gray. Flash does however > seem to work on other sites like Adobe's web site so possibly this is > more an issue with that page but I've seen a couple of others so far > that do the same thing. > > > 2) Two KDE features that I like quite a lot are not working at all: > > a) F8 - display all desktops doesn't work. With the original 2 > monitors the feature worked fine. > > b) The upper left corner 'display all apps' feature is not working. > > I've been Googling around without any luck in terms of finding > things to try in terms of fixing this, or even discovering that maybe > these things simply don't work with two adapters. Maybe there are some > accelerations or features I need to enable that nvidia-settings don't > do for me? I don't know. > > Note that in the older 2 monitor configuration I was using Twinview > which treats the two monitors as a single large monitor. > > Thanks in advance for any ideas about how to get this working at its best. > > Cheers, > Mark > > > [New 3 monitor xorg.conf] > > # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings > # nvidia-settings: version 275.09.07 > (buildmeis...@swio-display-x86-rhel47-03.nvidia.com) Wed Jun 8 > 14:38:19 PDT 2011 > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Layout0" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" > Screen 2 "Screen2" RightOf "Screen1" > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > Option "Xinerama" "1" > EndSection > > Section "Files" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > # generated from data in "/etc/conf.d/gpm" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > 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 "Monitor1" > VendorName "Unknown" > ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster" > HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0 > VertRefresh 56.0 - 61.0 > Option "DPMS" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "Unknown" > ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster" > HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0 > VertRefresh 56.0 - 61.0 > Option "DPMS" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid > Identifier "Monitor2" > VendorName "Unknown" > ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster" > HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0 > VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 > Option "DPMS" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Device1" > Driver "nvidia" > VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" > BoardName "GeForce GTX 465" > BusID "PCI:2:0:0" > Screen 1 > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Device0" > Driver "nvidia" > VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" > BoardName "GeForce GTX 465" > BusID "PCI:2:0:0" > Screen 0 > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Device2" > Driver "nvidia" > VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" > BoardName "GeForce 8400GS" > BusID "PCI:4:0:0" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen1" > Device "Device1" > Monitor "Monitor1" > DefaultDepth 24 > Option "TwinView" "0" > Option "metamodes" "DFP-2: 1920x1080 +0+0" > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > EndSubSection > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Device0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > Option "TwinView" "0" > Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: 1920x1080 +0+0" > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > EndSubSection > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen2" > Device "Device2" > Monitor "Monitor2" > DefaultDepth 24 > Option "TwinView" "0" > Option "metamodes" "1280x1024 +0+0" > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > EndSubSection > EndSection > > > > [Previous 2 monitor xorg.conf] > > # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig > # nvidia-xconfig: version 270.18 > (buildmeis...@swio-display-x86-rhel47-08.nvidia.com) Tue Jan 18 > 22:06:28 PST 2011 > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Layout0" > Screen 0 "Screen0" > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > EndSection > > Section "Files" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > # generated from data in "/etc/conf.d/gpm" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > # generated from default > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "kbd" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "Unknown" > ModelName "Unknown" > HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0 > VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0 > Option "DPMS" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Device0" > Driver "nvidia" > VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" > Option "TwinView" > Option "MetaModes" "1920x1080,1920x1080; 1920x1080" > Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Device0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > EndSubSection > EndSection >
