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I have a PC with an AGP Matrox Millenium G450 dualhead (and
onboard AGP video on the Jetway 650DF motherboard that I am
not using). I am running Slackware 9.1.

I am trying to set up Xinerama so that my desktop spans two
1024x768 LCD monitors connected to the G450.

(It would be cool if I could put a third monitor on the mobo
graphics card but right now I just want the G450 to work.)

My hardware is good; I was able to set up the dual monitors
under Rehat, and Mandrake automatically found them and set
up Xinerama properly during the install. They also work
in Win2k (spit!).

I am following the steps in the Xinerama-HOWTO at
[ http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Xinerama-HOWTO.html ].

In section 4 ("Scan the PCI Bus" it says:

To find out what your PCI bus IDs are:

root# > XFree86 -scanpci

X will then output a code for each device on your PCI bus.

When I try this I get no output - it just returns to the prompt.

XFree86 without -scanpci starts X just fine, and startx starts
up KDE just fine.

man XFree86 does not show -scanpci as an option.

What am I doing wrong?




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On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 03:24:02 +0000, Guy Macon wrote:

> man XFree86 does not show -scanpci as an option.

No, but `XFree86 -help` does

> What am I doing wrong?

I get the same non-effect. But you don't need to sweat it. You can get
the same codes from lspci

> Check out my resume at http://www.guymacon.com/resume.html/

I just checked your resume, and I think that I could have hit your house
with a frisbee from where I just had dinner (Thai Express, yum)

James K <james@beastie.client1.we.attbi.com> says...

>> man XFree86 does not show -scanpci as an option.
>
>No, but `XFree86 -help` does
>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>
>I get the same non-effect. But you don't need to sweat it. You can get
>the same codes from lspci

That does the trick!

I will send a note to the author of the HOWTO.

<off-topic>

>I just checked your resume, and I think that I could have hit your house
>with a frisbee from where I just had dinner (Thai Express, yum)

Yes. I am right down the street. I *love* Thai Express.

</off-topic>



--
Guy Macon, Electronics Engineer & Project Manager. Remember Doc Brown
from the 'Back to the Future' movies? Do you have an "impossible"
engineering project that only someone like Doc Brown can solve?
Check out my resume at http://www.guymacon.com/resume.html/