FC5: Dual head - second screen not working in X

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

On 3/21/06, Chris Ruprecht <chris at ruprecht.org> wrote:
 > > Hi all,
 > >
 > > I had the dual head stuff working great in FC4 on my ThinkPad. 
After the
 > > FC5 upgrade last night, the second screen no longer gets a signal 
when X
 > > starts.
 > >
 > > I tried to edit the xorg.conf file to no avail - the second screen 
stays
 > > dark. I ran the display configuration to span the desktop over two
 > > screens and it seems to place new windows on the second screen, but the
 > > screen still stays dark.
 > >
 > > I tried to find any info on this but came up empty.
 > >
 > > Any help is appreciated.
 > >
 > > Thanks,
 > > Chris

 > what chipset are you using?  I haven't been able to have a dual
 > display at all...

Problems with all linux distros with radeon dual head with xorg 6.9/7.0. 
  Not sure of other gfx boards.  Advice on xorg list is to try nightly 
DRI and radeon binary snapshots. See, for example:

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download#head-55420c59a1c2e9a70f07a6fa02f0d228ffb87b76

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