Dual Head

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Sun Jun 3 14:27:36 UTC 2007


Thomas Cameron wrote:
> Richard Ramson wrote:
>> I'm just installed Fedora7 and tried setting up my dual monitors but 
>> it fails.  Not sure where to look for answers, however if anyone has 
>> any suggestions I'm listening.  Hopefully someone knows how to 
>> confiugre a dual head monitor manually. :)
> 
> I have had much better luck with my dual-head setup running:
> 
> X -configure
> 
> as root than using system-config-display.  X -configure will create a 
> file called xorg.conf.new in /root, and you can test it by running the 
> command:
> 
> X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
> 
> to make sure that both monitors come up.  Now in my case, I have two 
> separate video cards.  Not sure how it will do with one card with 
> multiple out.
> 
> TC
> 

Like Thomas, X -configure worked a lot better for dual head for me also. 
System-config-display was not very good as it only got 800x600 for one 
of the heads. X -configure allowed the higher resolution though it 
picked the nouveau driver which did not work. I had to edit it to nv 
which worked.

Jim




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