[Xastir] Slightly OT: Three-headed BigBox on Fedora 6

[Richard Polivka]

Many years ago, there was a slogan "Wrap your a** in fiberglass, buy a 'Vette". 

Now I have wrapped my eyes in glass...BigBox has three rectangular eyeballs looking at me and room for one more. 

Here are the details:

AMD Athlon64 clocked at 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM, ATI Radeon 8500 LE AGP, ATI Radeon 9250 PCI. Fedora Core 6 running in 32-bit mode. Spanning desktop size: 4200 x 1050. APC SU2000XP UPS for backup.

Both video cards are dual-display (one VGA, one DVI). Monitors are a bit picky as to ordering. These were all saved courtesy of a planned dumpster diving expedition at the office. I had to play with the ordering of what monitor went into which card or the video card at bootup would not set up correctly and the AGP card would clone automatically instead of span. The UPS was a prize from another diving expedition - had sign on it that it died. All it needed was new batteries - the original batteries were still in it.

Here is the xorg.conf file:

#
# Triple-head configuration - with room for more...
#
# Richard E. Polivka, N6NKO
# 4 February 2007
# Outside temp: -10 F (!!)
#

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Multihead layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
        Screen      1  "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen2"
        Screen      2  "Screen2" RightOf "Screen1"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        Option        "Xinerama" "on"
        Option        "Clone" "off"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load    "i2c"
    Load    "vbe"
    Load    "dbe"
    Load    "extmod"
    Load    "fbdevhw"
    Load    "glx"
    Load    "record"
    Load    "freetype"
    Load    "Type1"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
    FontPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
    FontPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Keyboard0"
    Driver        "kbd"
    Option        "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Mouse0"
    Driver        "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier    "Monitor0"
        ModelName    "monitor"
        HorizSync    30.0 - 70.0
        VertRefresh    60.0 - 160.0
        Option        "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier    "Monitor1"
        ModelName    "monitor"
        HorizSync    30.0 - 70.0
        VertRefresh    60.0 - 160.0
        Option        "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier    "Monitor2"
        ModelName    "monitor"
        HorizSync    30.0 - 70.0
        VertRefresh    60.0 - 160.0
        Option        "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier    "Videocard1A"
        Driver        "radeon"
        VendorName    "ATI"
        BoardName    "ATI Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800 Pro] AGP (Primary Port)"
        BusID        "PCI:1:0:00"
        Screen        0
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier    "Videocard1B"
        Driver        "radeon"
        VendorName    "ATI"
        BoardName    "ATI Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800 Pro] AGP (Secondary Port)"
        BusID        "PCI:1:0:00"
        Screen        1
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier    "Videocard2A"
        Driver        "radeon"
        VendorName    "ATI"
        BoardName    "ATI Radeon RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] PCI (Primary Port)"
        BusID        "PCI:2:7:00"
        Screen        0
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier    "Videocard2B"
        Driver        "radeon"
        VendorName    "ATI"
        BoardName    "ATI Radeon RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] PCI (Secondary Port)"
        BusID        "PCI:2:7:01"
        Screen        1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier    "Screen0"
        Device        "Videocard1A"
        Monitor        "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection     "Display"
                Viewport 0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes     "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier    "Screen1"
        Device        "Videocard1B"
        Monitor        "Monitor1"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport 0 0
                Depth    24
                Modes    "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier    "Screen2"
        Device        "Videocard2A"
        Monitor        "Monitor2"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport 0 0
                Depth    24
                Modes    "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
EndSection


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Now I am ready for the rough weather season and SKYWARN reporting.

73 from 807,

Richard, N6NKO