[ale] preparing to attempt 2 monitors on F8

Geoffrey lists at serioustechnology.com
Tue Mar 4 14:29:01 EST 2008


Pete Hardie wrote:
> 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!

Let me know if you have any problems.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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