FC5 Step Backwards: WAS: Mostly off topic, Evolution question

[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

On Wed, April 26, 2006 7:11 pm, karlp at ourldsfamily.com said:
> On Wed, April 26, 2006 3:01 pm, Rick Stevens said:
>> On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 14:18 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
>>> On Wed, April 26, 2006 10:47 am, Rick Stevens said:
>>> > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 12:52 +0200, Andrew Kelly wrote:
>>>
>>> The other show-stopper is Xorg itself. There's no option to probe a
>>> monitor
>>> or video card with FC5, so I have to guess settings based on inadequate
>>> manufacturer's docs.
>>
>> Have you tried running "ddcprobe" or "X -probeonly"?  For example,
>> "ddcprobe" results in this on one of my machines:
>>
>> [root at prophead ~]# ddcprobe
>>
>> Videocard DDC probe results
>> Description:  Intel Corporation Intel(r)845G/845GL/845GE/845GV Graphics
>> Controller
>> Memory (MB):  7
>>
>> Monitor DDC probe results
>> ID: PNR5780
>> Name: Planar PL170
>> Horizontal Sync (kHZ): 24-80
>> Vertical Sync (HZ)  : 49-75
>> Width (mm): 340
>> Height(mm): 270
>>
>> It won't work on all monitors, but it does on a lot.
>
> I have now. I'll have to switch monitors to get the settings on the other
> one.
>
>>
>>>  It also doesn't do Dual Head (another currently open
>>> thread) which I've struggled with...
>>
>> Well, we don't know that yet.  Xorg says it does, and I believe them.
>> The Fedora list archives show others have it working as well.
>
> I've used Dual Head on FC4 very nicely. It's great. FC5, using the same
> xorg.conf file doesn't work. One monitor, the second one (Monitor1), has
> garbage on the screen and isn't usable. The problem is always Monitor1
> regardless of which monitor I use.
>

Okay, I twiddled with the X output log to see why X won't even come up with
an nVidia card. It says there's a resource already in use. I finally figured
out that it's the PCI:3,0,0 (?) line, so I removed that but still Monitor1
fails to even come up. At least on ATI it showed GUI with a valid mouse
pointer, but no viewable anything else. Yes, it does sound like a driver,
but I've installed ATI drivers with no success...

I'm hoping an update works for both the gnome freezing thing and dual head...

Karl