Fedora Core 5 Dual Head 2006-04-25 - By karlp@(protected)
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On Mon, April 24, 2006 5:08 pm, Rick Stevens said:
> On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 16:47 -0600, karlp@(protected) wrote:
>> On Mon, April 24, 2006 12:36 pm, Rick Stevens said:
>> > On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 12:59 -0600, karlp@(protected) wrote:
>> >> When I turn on Dual Head for X.org, it looks like the second monitor
>> has a
>> >> bad horizontal sync setting. With FC4, it worked out of the box, first
>> >> try.
>> >> I've edited xorg.conf to no avail as system-config-display messes
>> things
>> >> up
>> >> rather than making it easier. On FC4, I could probe the monitor and it
>> >> would
>> >> come back correctly. No such option here, or am I running the wrong
>> app?
>> >
>> > Which video card are you using, Karl? If it's nVidia, did you install
>> > a new binary driver and if so, try using their config tool.
>>
>> ATI. It worked flawlessly on FC4. . .
>
> Hmmmm. Well, FC5 uses a much later kernel. Wonder if there's an issue
> with ATI's driver and it.
>
I've now tried an nVidia card with the same results. Okay, not the same.
much worse. ATI at least powers both monitors if I don't have dual head on.
With it on, the cursor shows up, but the rest of the screen is messed up.
With nVidia, the screen goes to block characters, flashing, no GUI at all.
No mouse pointer, nothing.
I've got a newer 9250 series nVidia card to try later if I have time so I
guess we'll see how that goes.
>> >> One very annoying little side affect is that the bottom panel is now in
>> >> the
>> >> middle of the screen and one I added to the side is about 1/3rd of the
>> way
>> >> off the right edge. I can't get those to behave either...
>> >
>> > That's definitely either a vsync issue or a resolution issue.
>>
>> Solved that. Middle mouse button, drag to edge of screen, let go of mouse
>> button. Duh.
>
> Ugnh! I misunderstood you...I thought it was at the margin of the
> screen, but the screen was mucked up.
Nope, I'm messed up. Drat.
>
>>
>> >
>> > To be honest, I'm just now getting a machine up to run FC5 (haven't had
>> > the time until now), so I'll be in a better position to answer FC5
>> > issues later.
>
> And my laptop is being a right bitch about doing FC5.
Sounds like X.org has some issues about keeping back-compatible
drivers/driver-interpreters in a useful state.
Have fun with the laptop. I just ordered a new PC for work and the vendor is
installing FC4 on it. I guess I'll be giving up the GUI updater in favor of
the command-line yum, which I'm using more on FC5 anyway.
Karl
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