dual monitors in fedora?
Trevor Smith
trevor at haligonian.com
Tue Sep 28 03:01:11 UTC 2004
On September 27, 2004 3:05 pm, dev.loop at gmail.com wrote:
> Could you please describe, what you mean by "playing around". Which
> utils did you use ?
KMenu (in KDE3.2)->System Settings->Display
Dual Head section
checked "Use Dual Head"
(this writes to xorg.conf file)
Then
KMenu (in KDE3.2)->Preferences->Control Center
Peripherals section, Display subsection (I think) and then I played with
things.
The problem is that today I "upgraded" to KDE 3.3 and now I can't find that
section, so I can't even do the things that worked at first, then stopped
working yesterday. Sigh. KDE is getting so damn bloated and buggy, I think I
will go back to DOS.
> Booting to Win wont change the settings in Linux. Therefore there wont
> be any difference, when you boot back to linux.
Well, I theorized that a signal to turn off was being sent to the monitor and
linux was refusing to send a 'turn back on' signal, so I just wanted to see
if the monitor was toasted or if it would still work, and we all know that
things do work in Windows, as much as I hate to use it.
> > Does anyone know where/how I can turn the monitor back on, even in
> > normal, single image mode, in linux? I don't care if it's a KDE or just a
> > straight linux solution.
>
> The place to look is your xorg.conf
> The following are the changes I made to my XF86Config (thats not X
> Org, therefore it might be slitely different)
> Add these lines to the "Device" section
> # Option "TwinView"
> # Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-50"
> # Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60"
> # Option "MetaModes" "1024x768, 1024x768; 800x600, 800x600; 640x480,
> 640x480;" # Option "TVOutFormat" "COMPOSITE"
> # Option "TVStandard" "PAL-G"
>
> Change as appropriate.
Thanks. Too scary for me, I think. I've gotten the impression over the years
that tinkering with X if you don't know what you're doing can cause actual
damage to hardware. So I think I'll pass.
--
Trevor Smith // trevor at haligonian.com
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