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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