[Newbie]ATI Rage dual-head (Whith one card)

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On Fri, 17 May 2002, Fredrik Wänglund wrote:

> I cant get my card to work in dual-head mode. I have a laptop with an
> ATI Rage Pro and dual screens (Lcd and external crt) works well with
> Windows 98, but I cant get it to work in Linux.

> If I have got everything rigth I am supposed to have two device sections
> in the config file with different Screen arguments (0, 1), right? Ok
> I've tried this:

> Section "Device"
>     Identifier  "ATI-1"
>     Driver      "ati"
>     Screen	0
> EndSection

> Section "Device"
>     Identifier  "ATI-2"
>     Driver      "ati"
>     Screen      1
> EndSection

> But Xfree complains because I cannot asign two devices to the same
> adapter...

That message should be fairly clear.  This functionality isn't supported.
It might be in the future, but I can definitely say that it won't be in
the next 4.3.0 release.

Marc.

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