F10: can't get dual-head working

Jeff Voskamp javoskam at uwaterloo.ca
Fri Feb 13 20:53:52 UTC 2009


Dave Mitchell wrote:
> Ah thanks.
> For the record, my problem was due to insufficient virtual screen size.
>
> I created a minimal /etc/X11/xorg.conf to set a virtual screen big enough
> for two 1440x900 displays stacked vertically:
>
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier      "Default Screen"
>         Device          "Configured Video Device"
>         DefaultDepth    24
>         SubSection "Display"
>             Depth           24
>             Virtual         1400 1800
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Logged back in, and now it works (modulo gnome panels being screwed up in
> various unamusing ways).
>   
If you want to go past 2048 pixels in either direction on a 945 you have 
to turn off acceleration
(Option      "NoAccel" "true" in the "intel" driver section).

Jeff




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