dual heads

[Ian Stephen]

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 00:08, bobkline77 at earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> Ian, if you are having good results and know a better way, I would like to
> hear more about it when you have the time.
> 
Sad to report that my log says

"Made XF86Config-4.ians
Try XFree86 -xfconfig /root/XF86Config-4.ians
startx --+xinerama
to ServerFlags section add  Section "ServerFlags"
                                 Option "Xinerama" "true"
                            EndSection
Got both monitors working in Linux!"

I remember that the XF86Config-4 file was made by changing my old one to
a new name and running something, probably "X -configure"

The additional hardware was detected and a new XF86Config-4 made.  It
didn't work right away, but was close enough that it took little
tweaking to get it working.

I'm using i810 onboard, Aptiva 2270 Celeron 533. The second card is a
4Mb ATI Rage II.  A 2Mb card (S3 Virge?) I tried wouldn't work when I
first did dual monitors using Windows 98.  Never tried it with Linux as
a second card, but it's working as the only one in my P100 (Mandrake).

With Windows 98 the first card could be AGP, but the second had to be
PCI.  Don't know if the same applies with Linux.

I think the page I used for Linux info was
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO/index.html

Cheers,
IanS