multi head woes

[Carl Karsten]

Carl Karsten wrote:
> Carl Karsten wrote:
>> I have 3 cards and 3 monitors 'working' but next to unusable.
> 
> I thought they had 128, 8 and 8 mb - but I just noticed in the log:
> 
>> (--) NV(0): VideoRAM: 16384 kBytes
> 
>> (--) MGA(1): VideoRAM: 4096 kByte
> 
>> (--) MGA(2): VideoRAM: 2048 kByte
> 
> So I only have 16, 4, 2 ?  If lspci -v dosn't show ram, is there some 
> other command that will so I can just stuff a few cards in a box and 
> check them without having to configure X ?
> 
> Using the config/log below I did get 16 bit depth with these cards: 
> 1600, 800 and 640x480. yuck.  Time to try some more cards.
> 

The lines and speed problems went away with this config.  seems odd.

C