[ale] Two video cards driving 2 monitors each

[Mike Harrison]

On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Joshua Roberts wrote:

> I am building a server for a friend of mine.  I am trying to setup two
> Nvidia graphics cards to work with Ubuntu 9.10 x64bit.  Each card has 2xDVI
> outputs.  the goal is to be able to drive 3-4 monitors simultaneously.  I
> have read some pages about editing the xorg.conf, but it seems that in 9.10
> the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg command does not work.
>

I used the nvidia configurator, and am running two nvidia cards, and right 
now, 3 monitors. My config looks like:





# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildd at crested)  Sun Feb  1 20:25:37 UTC 2009

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister at builder58)  Fri Aug 14 18:33:37 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"
     Identifier     "Monitor0"
     VendorName     "Unknown"
     ModelName      "HP w2408"
     HorizSync       24.0 - 94.0
     VertRefresh     48.0 - 85.0
     Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
     Identifier     "Monitor1"
     VendorName     "Unknown"
     ModelName      "Matrox"
     HorizSync       0.0 - 0.0
     VertRefresh     0.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
     Identifier     "Device0"
     Driver         "nvidia"
     VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
     BoardName      "GeForce 8600 GT"
     BusID          "PCI:5:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
     Identifier     "Device1"
     Driver         "nvidia"
     VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
     BoardName      "GeForce 7300 LE"
     BusID          "PCI:4:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
     Identifier     "Screen0"
     Device         "Device0"
     Monitor        "Monitor0"
     DefaultDepth    24
     Option         "TwinView" "1"
     Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
     Option         "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +1920+0"
     SubSection     "Display"
         Depth       24
     EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
     Identifier     "Screen1"
     Device         "Device1"
     Monitor        "Monitor1"
     DefaultDepth    24
     Option         "TwinView" "0"
     Option         "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
     SubSection     "Display"
         Depth       24
     EndSubSection
EndSection