I hope I'm not posting a question that already exist, but all I find so far are rather about configuring a second monitor which at least gives a sign of life at some time; which mine does not. (except if I set it as primary in the bios, but then of course I don't get the first any more, not even a blink during the booting process, nada)
So as I say, my 2nd monitor doesn't give a sign of life.
Display manager doesn't see it, neither does nvidia-settings. (which would be expected as the video card is not nvidia). Oh, and neither does xrandr.
Both video cards are detected on lspci, but that's the maximum I reach so far. Here they are: 1st: onboard
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51G [GeForce 6100] (rev a2)
2nd: PCI
VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 300/305 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter (rev 90)
When I tried X -configure he gave me following errors:
(EE) Failed to load module "vmwgfx" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) vmware: please ignore the above warnings about not being able to load module/driver vmwgfx
Cool ;p
(EE) vmware: Unexpected failure while loading the "vmwlegacy" driver. Giving up.
(++) Using config file: "/home/julien/xorg.conf.new"
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(EE) [drm] No DRICreatePCIBusID symbol Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed.
ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log
(I can put the complete log if it helps, but that's what I had displayed on my terminal.)
And then as one would expect, the xorg.conf was somewhat strange:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
Screen 2 "Screen2" RightOf "Screen1"
Screen 3 "Screen3" RightOf "Screen2"
Screen 4 "Screen4" RightOf "Screen3"
Screen 5 "Screen5" RightOf "Screen4"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "built-ins"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri2"
Load "record"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor2"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor3"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor4"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor5"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
### <percent>: "<f>%"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "WrappedFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "GLXVBlank" # [<bool>]
#Option "ZaphodHeads" # <str>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nouveau"
BusID "PCI:0:5:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card1"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:0:5:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
### <percent>: "<f>%"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "Rotate" # <str>
#Option "fbdev" # <str>
#Option "debug" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card2"
Driver "fbdev"
BusID "PCI:0:5:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
### <percent>: "<f>%"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "Rotate" # <str>
#Option "fbdev" # <str>
#Option "debug" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card3"
Driver "fbdev"
BusID "PCI:3:10:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
### <percent>: "<f>%"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultRefresh" # [<bool>]
#Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card4"
Driver "vesa"
BusID "PCI:0:5:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
### <percent>: "<f>%"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultRefresh" # [<bool>]
#Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card5"
Driver "vesa"
BusID "PCI:3:10:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Card1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen2"
Device "Card2"
Monitor "Monitor2"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
So... To sum up:
it found 3 devices with the bus address of my nvidia card (with 3 different drivers - nouveau and nvidia working well for it as far as I know, never tried fbdev);
and 2 devices with the bus address of my SIS card (both with vesa driver which I never tried and none with the sis driver, which would be the one I expect, and which is installed on my system (was in the list when doing X -config))
Note: Until yesterday I was on Ubuntu 10.04; I also had the problem of not being able to see both monitors, but at least X -config was giving meaningfull result, and I had done from it the following "xorg.conf":
#Section "ServerLayout"
# Identifier "X.org Configured"
# Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
# Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
# InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
# InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
#EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
FontPath "built-ins"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
Load "dri2"
Load "record"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
###########################
######## MONITORS #########
###########################
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 480 270 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "SAM"
ModelName "SyncMaster"
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 60.0
# Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080@60"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Fujitsu Siemens"
ModelName "P19-2"
Horizsync 30 - 82.0
Vertrefresh 56.0 - 76.0
# Option "PreferredMode" "1240x1024@60"
Gamma 1.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
###################################
######## GRAPHICAL DEVICES ########
###################################
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>]
#Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "FlatPanel" # [<bool>]
#Option "FPDither" # [<bool>]
#Option "CrtcNumber" # <i>
#Option "FPScale" # [<bool>]
#Option "FPTweak" # <i>
#Option "DualHead" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nouveau"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "C51G [GeForce 6100]"
BusID "PCI:0:5:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "Accel" # [<bool>]
#Option "AccelMethod" # <str>
#Option "TurboQueue" # [<bool>]
#Option "FastVram" # [<bool>]
#Option "HostBus" # [<bool>]
#Option "RenderAcceleration" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForceCRT1Type" # <str>
#Option "ForceCRT2Type" # <str>
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "AGPSize" # <i>
#Option "GARTSize" # <i>
#Option "Vesa" # [<bool>]
#Option "MaxXFBMem" # <i>
#Option "EnableSiSCtrl" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWCursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "HWCursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "UseColorHWCursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "Rotate" # <str>
#Option "Reflect" # <str>
#Option "Xvideo" # [<bool>]
#Option "InternalModes" # [<bool>]
#Option "OverruleFrequencyRanges" # [<bool>]
#Option "RestoreBySetMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForceCRT1" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvOnCRT2" # [<bool>]
#Option "PanelDelayCompensation" # <i>
#Option "PDC" # <i>
#Option "PanelDelayCompensation2" # <i>
#Option "PDC2" # <i>
#Option "PanelDelayCompensation1" # <i>
#Option "PDC1" # <i>
#Option "EMI" # <i>
#Option "LVDSHL" # <i>
#Option "ForcePanelRGB" # <i>
#Option "SpecialTiming" # <str>
#Option "TVStandard" # <str>
#Option "UseROMData" # [<bool>]
#Option "UseOEMData" # [<bool>]
#Option "YV12" # [<bool>]
#Option "CHTVType" # [<bool>]
#Option "CHTVOverscan" # [<bool>]
#Option "CHTVSuperOverscan" # [<bool>]
#Option "CHTVLumaBandwidthCVBS" # <i>
#Option "CHTVLumaBandwidthSVIDEO" # <i>
#Option "CHTVLumaFlickerFilter" # <i>
#Option "CHTVChromaBandwidth" # <i>
#Option "CHTVChromaFlickerFilter" # <i>
#Option "CHTVCVBSColor" # [<bool>]
#Option "CHTVTextEnhance" # <i>
#Option "CHTVContrast" # <i>
#Option "SISTVEdgeEnhance" # <i>
#Option "SISTVAntiFlicker" # <str>
#Option "SISTVSaturation" # <i>
#Option "SISTVCFilter" # [<bool>]
#Option "SISTVYFilter" # <i>
#Option "SISTVColorCalibFine" # <i>
#Option "SISTVColorCalibCoarse" # <i>
#Option "SISTVXScale" # <i>
#Option "SISTVYScale" # <i>
#Option "TVXPosOffset" # <i>
#Option "TVYPosOffset" # <i>
#Option "SIS6326TVAntiFlicker" # <str>
#Option "SIS6326TVEnableYFilter" # [<bool>]
#Option "SIS6326TVYFilterStrong" # [<bool>]
#Option "SIS6326TVForcePlug" # <str>
#Option "SIS6326FSCAdjust" # <i>
#Option "YPbPrAspectRatio" # <str>
#Option "TVBlueWorkAround" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorHWCursorBlending" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorHWCursorBlendThreshold" # <i>
#Option "CRT2Detection" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForceCRT2ReDetection" # [<bool>]
#Option "SenseYPbPr" # [<bool>]
#Option "CRT1Gamma" # [<bool>]
#Option "CRT2Gamma" # [<str>]
#Option "GammaBrightness" # <str>
#Option "GammaBrightnessCRT2" # <str>
#Option "CRT2GammaBrightness" # <str>
#Option "Brightness" # <str>
#Option "NewGammaBrightness" # <str>
#Option "CRT2Brightness" # <str>
#Option "CRT2NewGammaBrightness" # <str>
#Option "Contrast" # <str>
#Option "NewGammaContrast" # <str>
#Option "CRT2Contrast" # <str>
#Option "CRT2NewGammaContrast" # <str>
#Option "CRT1Saturation" # <i>
#Option "XvGamma" # [<str>]
#Option "XvDefaultContrast" # <i>
#Option "XvDefaultBrightness" # <i>
#Option "XvDefaultHue" # <i>
#Option "XvDefaultSaturation" # <i>
#Option "XvDefaultDisableGfx" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvDefaultDisableGfxLR" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvChromaMin" # <i>
#Option "XvChromaMax" # <i>
#Option "XvUseChromaKey" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvInsideChromaKey" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvYUVChromaKey" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvDisableColorKey" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvUseMemcpy" # [<bool>]
#Option "BenchmarkMemcpy" # [<bool>]
#Option "UseSSE" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvDefaultAdaptor" # <str>
#Option "ScaleLCD" # [<bool>]
#Option "CenterLCD" # [<bool>]
#Option "EnableHotkey" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForceCRT1VGAAspect" # <str>
#Option "ForceCRT2VGAAspect" # <str>
#Option "MergedFB" # [<str>]
#Option "TwinView" # [<str>]
#Option "MergedFBAuto" # [<bool>]
#Option "CRT2HSync" # <str>
#Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" # <str>
#Option "CRT2VRefresh" # <str>
#Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" # <str>
#Option "CRT2Position" # <str>
#Option "TwinViewOrientation" # <str>
#Option "MetaModes" # <str>
#Option "MergedDPI" # <str>
#Option "MergedXinerama" # [<bool>]
#Option "TwinviewXineramaInfo" # [<bool>]
#Option "MergedXineramaCRT2IsScreen0" # [<bool>]
#Option "MergedNonRectangular" # [<bool>]
#Option "MergedMouseRestriction" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card1"
Driver "sis"
VendorName "Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]"
BoardName "300/305 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter"
BusID "PCI:3:10:0"
EndSection
############################
######### SCREENS ##########
############################
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1080" "1600x1200" "1680x1050" "1440x900" 1280x800" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
#Section "Screen"
# Identifier "Screen1"
# Device "Card1"
# Monitor "Monitor1"
# DefaultDepth 24
# SubSection "Display"
# Viewport 0 0
# Depth 1
# EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Viewport 0 0
# Depth 4
# EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Viewport 0 0
# Depth 8
# Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
# EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Viewport 0 0
# Depth 15
# EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Viewport 0 0
# Depth 16
# Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
# EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Viewport 0 0
# Depth 24
# Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
# EndSubSection
#EndSection
You notice that the second device and the server layout are commented... Indeed it could already not work with 2 devices... I installed ubuntu 11.10 to try to solve this problem... But actually, I can still not use the 2 screens in the same time, neither can I start with this old xorg.conf file... It just gets stucked on the "UBUNTU" screen... can not even access a terminal, except of course when working in recovery mode of course.
Note, the xorg.conf currently in use and working is simply:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Default Device"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection
But of course with that I have only one monitor...
All that is kindof frustrating... Any help would be greatly appreciated. Could it be that my hardware is not able to use 2 monitors and that the OS has nothing to do with it?
