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  From: Alex Wallis <awol@prepaidonline.com.au>
  To  : David Sambell <sambelld@chariot.net.au>
  Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 02:16:48 +0930

Re: X11 material

I use a dual head desktop but had no problems whatsoever getting it to
work. When I did X -configure both my vid cards were detected and a file
called /root/XF86Config.new was written fine. I merely had to tweak that
file to get my mouse to work since "auto" didn't work for me.
The old xfree-3.x.x tools (like Xconfigurator, xf86config, and/or
XF86Setup) will not work with xinerama I believe, and they use the old
syntax anyway.
You could try doing xf86cfg though, as well as the recommended XFree86
-configure method.

For more details on dual head displays see
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO.html

Alex


David Sambell wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I'm seeking techincal instruction for how to set up dual monitors in Linux.
> Along the way I hope to solve some other issues I've been dealing with, such
> as
> why my vnc service will start kde ok but not gnome.
> 
> At the moment I have a PC which will run dual monitors fine in Windows, once
> I enabled the bios setting 'boot PCI Video'.
> I reinstalled Linux in this state and it is displaying fine on the PCI video
> card.
> Now I'd like to learn how to get the AGP card up and running also.
> 
> If anyone can recommend some good online articles or hard copy books to be
> found on the subjects of installing video card drivers and configuring X11,
> I'd appreciate it very much.
> 
> David Sambell
> sambelld@chariot.net.au
> 
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