Posted on by Eugene

Dual-head…sort of

Finally got the ATI drivers (went with 8.40.4) to compile and now I’ve got my workstation running with two monitors, although not quite the way I was anticipating.
Instead of the desktop spanning both monitors, I’ve got separate desktops on each monitor. It’s not the usual desktop layers either. More like having two separate simultaneous login sessions going. Not quite what I was expecting.
Going to have to do a little more research on the matter, but at least it’s working (kinda).

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2 Replies to “Dual-head…sort of”

  1. Yeah, that dual-head arrangement is nothing short of bizarre. I ran into that with Ubuntu 7.04 and could not figure out how to make it act sanely. Good luck figuring it out!

  2. I managed to get the desktop to span both monitors by adding
    Option “Xinerama” “on”
    Option “Clone” “off”
    to the ServerLayout section of the xorg.conf file.
    Now I need to figure out why Fedora’s system-config-display script craps out all the time.

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