Dual monitors

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:57:18AM -0400, Dave Gavin wrote:
> 
>  Does anyone have any experience getting a dual monitor display going on RedHat
> 9 with XFree 4.3 ? I picked up a few Matrox Millennium G400 cards with dual
> outputs that I'd like to get running. Google provided some clues, but they all
> seem to be missing something as the second display never comes active.  I've
> tried defining a Screen0 and Screen1 in XF86Config along with Monitor0/1 and
> Videocard0/1 and then setting DISPLAY=:1.0 but nothing shows on the second
> display. Am I doing or missing something massively dumb ?

Possibly. Here are relevant portions of my Xinerama config:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        Screen      1  "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        #DisplaySize      330   240     # mm
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "DEL"
        ModelName    "DELL P780"
        Option      "DPMS"
EndSection
 
Section "Monitor"
        #DisplaySize      330   240     # mm
        Identifier   "Monitor1"
        VendorName   "DEL"
        ModelName    "DELL P780"
        Option      "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
       Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "mga"
        VendorName  "Matrox"
        BoardName   "MGA G200 PCI"
        BusID       "PCI:0:7:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card1"
        Driver      "mga"
        VendorName  "Matrox"
        BoardName   "MGA G200 AGP"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        DefaultDepth 24
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection
 
Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen1"
        Device     "Card1"
        DefaultDepth 24
        Monitor    "Monitor1"
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection