Guy Fraser wrote:
On Wed, 2005-12-01 at 20:04 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
I submitted a bug report for problems trying to resolve a dual display
problem with the latest xorg-x11 program. I recall reading some list
mail and some bug reports earlier that referred to older X versions
working and later versions failing. I want to see if this is regression
or if an Intel 815 (primary) and an ati (secondary) video card could
work with Fedora/Red Hat.
I installed Severn to see if I could configure dual-display and found
only the start of the configuration tool interface. (blank tab).
Anyway, before trailing through all the betas, FC releases and such, I
would like to know where a functional configuration tool begins.
I will have to presume that reading the documentation and then using
"vi" to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf don't count.
Severn is now gone. I upgraded to FC2 to try to configure this with
s-c-display.
As for the editing the xorg.conf file to do dual head functioning. I
think editing should be a last resort, after configuration tools fall
short of expectations.
Basic problem. Rawhide s-c-display errored out on attempting to
reconfigure X. Severn does not have the tool. FC2 comes with the ability
to configure dual head.
I'll attempt to scour through the documentation to manually configure
dual head. I can get X up and running. The problem is with getting the
secondary and promary cards configure to work correctly.
Internal video (Intel 815) and PCI slotted ATI video do not seem to
configure properly with Internal first, PCI secondary.
I figured out where s-c-display and X both seem to work a bit. (FC2 w/
no updates applied. The interaction is still present with this backdated
trail.
So the answer is: With vi and scouring documentation for X?
Jim
The bug and hardware that I am trying to use is posted in the bug report
that this link points to.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144597
I know the hardware is capable of working with this setup. The dual-head
operation works in Win ME, which is held in low esteem even among MS users.
Thanks!
Jim