Unable to use dual displays FC5

jim lawrence fedorajim at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 18:21:19 UTC 2006


On 3/21/06, jim lawrence <fedorajim at gmail.com> wrote:
> i still cannot use a second monitor with my notebook  This has been
> the same since Core 3
>
> Hardware  Intel 855gm  chipset
> External VGA port for external monitor, projector etc..
>
> So I have had to use windows to do presentations which really sucks!
>
> Going threw the configuring dual displays and loggoing out results in
> X crashing.  Do i need to manually edit Xorg.conf for this to work? I
> have tried this route before with out sucess. Is there a package that
> needs to be installed? Being able to use a external device for
> displaying something is a integral part of a notebooks existance.
>
> What log file outputs do you require?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
After reading the Read Me in the i855crt package  I get the feeling
that this package will not help me in any way.


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