Configuring multiple monitors

Pat Maddox pergesu at gmail.com
Sat Sep 17 12:17:12 PDT 2005


I did some searching and disabled agp.ko in the device.hints file. 
Still I get this error (twice), and I have no idea what it means:
Symbol __glXGetActiveScreen from module
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!


On 9/17/05, Pat Maddox <pergesu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Mario,
> 
> Thanks for the response.  I installed nvidia-driver and changed the
> conf file as you suggested, but I get the error:
> NVRM: Detected agp.ko, aborting NVIDIA AGP setup!
> 
> X still starts up, but only with one screen.  Not really sure what to
> do - any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Pat
> 
> On 9/17/05, Mario Hoerich <spambox at mhoerich.de> wrote:
> > # Pat Maddox:
> > > Anyway I've got a Dell 2001fp and a Viewsonic vp201, hooked up to a
> > > GeForce4 Ti4600.
> >
> > You'll need to run the binary nvidia-driver (~ports/x11/nvidia-driver)
> > for this to work.  Once that works, the xorg.conf-entries are rather
> > simple:
> >
> >  # see /usr/X11R6/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0 for nVidia-specific docs
> >  Section "Device"
> >    Identifier  "NV AGP"
> >    Driver      "nvidia"
> >    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
> >    Option      "TwinView" "on"
> >    Option      "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1280x1024"
> >    Option      "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "28-64"
> >    Option      "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60"
> >    Option      "TwinViewOrientation" "LeftOf"  # Or RightOf
> >    Option      "RenderAccel" "true"
> >  EndSection
> >
> >  Section "Screen"
> >     Identifier  "Screen 1"
> >     Device      "NV AGP"
> >     Monitor     "samsung"
> >     DefaultDepth 24
> >
> >     Subsection "Display"
> >         Depth       24
> >         Modes       "1280x1024"
> >     EndSubsection
> >  EndSection
> >
> >  Section "ServerLayout"
> >     Identifier "Layout 1"
> >     Screen     "Screen 1"
> >     InputDevice "Mouse 1" "CorePointer"
> >     InputDevice "Keyboard 1" "CoreKeyboard"
> >  EndSection
> >
> > The screen-section sets up the primary display, the other is set
> > up with the SecondMonitorXXXXXXX-options in the Device Section.
> > ServerLayout sets the screen-section to use.
> >
> >  HTH
> > Mario
> >
> >
>


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