[TriLUG] dual display help

[The Crocodile]

Be advised that dual heading your monitor can be a BEYATCH! (pardon my
slang French) :). It is largely dependent upon the cards in use and the
desired setup. Don't use the little GUI thing because it doesn't work
for crap. At least it didn't for my setup.

Try editing the XF86Config file by hand and adding the line:

Option		"Clone" "off"

under the section for "ServerLayout"

Also be sure that

Option 		"Ximerame" "on"

is also set.

And last if you can't get it to work, send me a copy of your XF86Config
and I will take a look through it as time permits. I can't guarantee
that I will be able to debug it, but I do know what the major chunks of
the file should look like for what you are trying to accomplish.

--T




On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 18:55, Merle Watts wrote:
> Just put a matrox G450 dual head in my linux box running mandrale 9.2. All I can get it to do is display the same screen on both monitors.  Tried to change this under configure your computer but it doesnt seem to want to change anything.  This configuration seems kind  of useless.
> 
> any ideas on how to change it?
> 
> Thanks
>