Peter Rundle wrote:
Phil,
I'm currently running dual monitors on FC5 with a Matrox G400. I have my
machine setup dual boot with Gutsy but cannot get it to do dual monitors
in spite of all the googling I've done.
My problem appears to be that it requires the binaries from Matrox to
support the second screen. The open source drivers from Xorg just don't
support this card in dual screen mode. Matrox have stopped supporting
the binaries past xorg 7.0.0, but have released the source code (though
I can't get it to compile on Gutsy yet). "X -version" on Gutsy give
1.3.0 which is kinda confusing as the older FC5 gives 7.0.0. So I'm
currently stuck with FC5 until I can get a driver for the card that
supports dual screens to load into Xorg 1.3.0.
I can send you my org.conf file that works in FC5, if that helps but
honestly it's nothing special and you are using different cards anyway.
There are lots and lots of examples on the net of twin screen setups but
I've tried them all and none of them work (besides you'd think that my
best chance was the config I have for FC5 that does work). I think that
you're problem is probably the same as mine, that is there's an issue
with the driver, maybe there is some config option that you can put into
xorg that will put the card into dual screen mode, but I don't know what
that might be.
Not sure this helps you much accept that you're not alone with being
unable to get Gutsy to run dual.
Thanks Pete. Sounds very simnilar to my experience - a thousand examples
on the net and none of them work in my case. There has got to be
something small missing...:(
Fil
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