From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Langdon-Davies Subject: Re: multiple X displays and nvidia Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 10:03:43 +0200 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4073B5DF.7080609@arrakis.es> References: <407279E5.9040805@arrakis.es> <40737D3D.7060606@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <40737D3D.7060606@comcast.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Beolach , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Beolach wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I want to rephrase your description, just to make sure I understand your > issue correctly. On your PII machine you have a nVidia graphics card > with dual-head, connected to two monitors; configured using Xinerama. > One of the monitors was set to display a local X screen, and the other > was set to display an X screen exported from your PIV machine. After > switching from the xfree86 nv driver to nVidia's propriatary nvidia > driver, you are able to start X on one display, but trying to start on > the second fails. No. I'm sorry, I didn't describe it too well. PII has two nVidia cards, one for each monitor. Spread across the two monitors is the display running locally. Switching to vt08 (Alt+ F8) I get the display which is running on the PIV. This works fine with the nv driver, but not with nVidia's proprietary nvidia driver. The error message again is (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate external video decoder object (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** Fatal server error: AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 So far as I could make it out, it's not related to the 'Twinview' feature. Actually I can't see anything in the README that relates to it. I think you're right that the nvidia forum might be more appropriate for this question, but I just thought I'd try here first. Thanks for your time. Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs