[ale] preparing to attempt 2 monitors on F8

[Pete Hardie]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Pete Hardie wrote:
>  I'm assuming your card has dual outputs?  I don't know if it's
>  supported, but my older ATI card is.

My support guy got this card specifically for the dual outputs.

>
>  I have a Fedora 8 system with an ATI Radeon AGP that, up to about a
>  month ago was dual head.  My Viewsonice P225F fried about that time, so
>  I've been limping along on a single monitor.  Mine uses the radeon driver.
>
>  That being said, I had to make quite a change from my previous Fedora 6
>  dual head configuration to my current Fedora 8.
>
>  Under Fedora 6, I was using Xinerama to facilitate the dual head
>  functionality, under Fedora 8, I'm using xrandr.
>
>  Under Fedora 8, I set up the display as a single head setup, wherein you
>  end up with duplicate displays on both monitors.  Once I'm in X, I run:
>
>  xrandr --output DVI-0 --left-of VGA-0
>
>  Check out the man page for xrandr.

I will.  Thanks!


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