On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Anthony Messina <<a href="mailto:amessina@messinet.com">amessina@messinet.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Thursday 24 December 2009 05:41:03 Kirk Lowery wrote: > Thanks for the response and the great idea! The same thing had occurred to > me, especially as I had used this technique to install Fedora 10. > > Only...there isn't any xorg.conf! Neither on the LiveCD nor on the > installed hard disk! At least, it's not in /etc/X11 and locate only shows > the man page. > > So how does nouveau get away without an xorg.conf? > > Kirk > </div>I use dual head with nouveau using the following xorg.conf: </blockquote></div> Well, I tried this conf and it worked -- exactly as without an xorg.conf: everything about dual head works except for the background stretch. I guess I'm going to have to get in touch with the LiveCD developers, and find out who does the nouveau stuff for it; either that or the nouveau IRC. If I ever solve this, I'll report back here. Thanks for everyone's responses and for holding my hand on this! Kirk