Dual monitors on FC3

[Philip Prindeville]

Gordon Charrick wrote:

> Philip Prindeville wrote:
>
>> Gordon Charrick wrote:
>>
>>> I've got a Matrox G400 (it has two VGA ports built-in) and just 
>>> hooked a second monitor to the other VGA port. When I run 
>>> system-config-display it gives me the option to enable the 2nd 
>>> monitor, but when I restart X the other monitor just sits there 
>>> stupidly like it's not getting a signal. Do I need any other 
>>> software to do this or is Fedora set up to run it out of the box?
>>>
>>
>> Can you attach your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file?
>>
>> -Philip
>>
> Sure, here it is.
>
> # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "Multihead layout"
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
>         Screen      1  "Screen1" 0 0
>         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>         Option      "Xinerama" "off"
>         Option      "Clone" "on"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
>         RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
>         FontPath     "unix/:7100"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
>         Load  "dbe"
>         Load  "extmod"
>         Load  "fbdevhw"
>         Load  "glx"
>         Load  "record"
>         Load  "freetype"
>         Load  "type1"
>         Load  "dri"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Mouse0"
>         Driver      "mouse"
>         Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
>         Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
>         Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
>         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>         ModelName    "LL-172C-B"
>         DisplaySize  340        270
>         HorizSync    24.0 - 82.0
>         VertRefresh  55.0 - 77.0
>         Option      "dpms"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier   "Monitor1"
>         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>         ModelName    "LCD Panel 1280x1024"
>         HorizSync    31.5 - 67.0
>         VertRefresh  50.0 - 75.0
>         Option      "dpms"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "mga"
>         VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>         BoardName   "Matrox Millennium G400"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard1"
>         Driver      "mga"
>         VendorName  "Videocard Vendor"
>         BoardName   "Matrox Millennium G400"
>         BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
>         Screen      1
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Videocard0"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>         DefaultDepth     16
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     16
>                 Modes    "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" 
> "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen1"
>         Device     "Videocard1"
>         Monitor    "Monitor1"
>         DefaultDepth     16
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 Depth     16
>                 Modes    "1280x1024"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "DRI"
>         Group        0
>         Mode         0666
> EndSection
>


What does "xdpyinfo" say?  And what does your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file
look like?

-Philip