[ale] DUAL-HEAD WORKS!! and more on SuSE 8.1

[Dow Hurst]

It is interesting your experience with the Personal Edition since I've 
been using the Professional.  My original two video cards, Nvidia 
Geforce 2 MX420 and SiS 6xxx (can't remember), were sensed and allowed 
to be configured as multihead Xinerama under Sax2 with no problem.  I 
did have problems with the LVM procedure during install where it didn't 
write out the config.  Little glitches that can add up to a headache for 
sure for some!

If you have hardware autosensing turned on in init level 5 then you may 
have had Sax2 rewrite your dual head config some.  I'd like to know if 
the file is identical now that your up and running compared to what you 
have dropped in from Mandrake.
Dow


Geoffrey wrote:

> So, for the past couple of days, Iv'e been upgrading my box from 
> Mandrake to SuSE 8.1  SuSE squirted a few problem out, but all in all, 
> it was quite uneventful.
>
> The wonderful thing about is, I've got my dual head set up working 
> now.  This is truly wierd though, because all I did was take the dual 
> head config file I had been hacking at on my Mandrake install and put 
> it in place.  Restart the X server and I'm good.  I can't believe the 
> hours I spent trying to get this thing to work on Mandrake.  I still 
> like Mandrake, but one of the main reasons I considered going to SuSE, 
> was because I'd traded emails with a guy who got the dual head going 
> on SuSE and he had the same video card.
>
> SuSE doesn't see to video cards, so you can't use YAST2 to configure it.
>
> This is too cool though.  I've got a 20" as my 'left' monitor and a 
> 15" as my right.
>
> As for my SuSE problems, I really only had one issue.  Although it 
> picked up my scanner on install, I couldn't get the thing to respond. 
> Once I started checking out the sane config files I noted that YAST 
> had set up my scanner as scsi, when it is usb.  Changing file fixed 
> this one and only problem I had.
>
> By the way, I now others had problems with doing a SuSE 8.1 install 
> when trying to create some custom partitions.  I did not have this 
> same problem, so I'm wondering if SuSE professional might be doing 
> something a bit different then SuSE personal.
>

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