--- Troy Bull <troybull.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings:
I recently upgraded my os (a clean install) to Fedora Core 5, and I was
excited to see the support for Dual Head built into the configuration
utility. I am having a problem getting it setup correctly. What I want
is to extend my desktop onto my second monitor. I went through the
System->Administration->Display utility and can't make it work. I will
describe what is happening.
I have 2 identical monitors and a Radeon X600 PCIE card. When I boot to
windows the setup works so it is plugged in correctly. The monitors are
connected via the digital hookup.
On my left monitor I have a desktop. Then on my right monitor I have a
ghosted image from the left monitor. If I try to click on the left
monitor it doesn't work (I can move the mouse onto screen1 by going off
the right edge of screen 0. I noticed by looking at the workplace
switcher I actually have the wide desktop. I can move windows on and
off the part which lies underneath the ghosted image of screen1.
So in short, everything is correct except Screen1 shows an image of
Screen0 instead of the desktop which is really there.
I am a bit frustrated as I have been tinkering with xorg.conf and can't
make it work. This used to work so I feel like it still should, if
anyone could give me some tips or something I would greatly appreciate it.
Troy,
Though I didn't go over your xorg.conf file too closely, I don't think that's
your problem. The problem is in the Xorg7 Radeon driver. There is an update
posted at
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/5....
I think you can install it by typing something like:
sudo yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update xorg-x11-drv-ati
BEWARE! On some ATI boards, this update will lock up your machine randomly.
There's already a bug filed on this that hasn't seen any activity for a
while:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5781
This is what I'm experiencing.
A week ago, I did a complete checkout and build to see if CVS HEAD fixed this
problem. I found that it made no difference on my T30.
Good luck.
John