On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 10:16 -0700, MHR wrote:
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:54 AM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-May/080915.html
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Oh, my word - how many months ago was that! :-)
Another major difference between what I was doing and what you are doing is that I had a single video card with dual head connectors on it. You are running two cards.
Yep, I'm a "greenie" at heart. *Nothing* goes to the dump until it is properly aged or stinks to bad from the mold that grew on it in a deep, dark, moist storage location. (:-P
I do have an Nvidia and another ATI with the analog and DVI connectors though. So I can move that direction if needed.
I don't think the problem was 64-bit related - either the card driver works or it does not. I am more convinced that it was an xorg issue, at least in part because the right xorg.conf setup made it work.
I also believe it's an xorg issue, even if it's the drivers they provide.
You might play around with anything that gives you both monitors and then see what comes up between system-config-display and using the ati configuration program.
Uh... you missed the start of the thread I guess. That was the point of my OP. I even tried to do everything right - Kudzu, system-config-display, manual massage of xorg.conf after initial failure, googled fairly extensively, ... heck I even checked the CentOS bugzilla! =:-O
But, if you're looking for an all-CentOS solution, try going into system-config-display and set the monitors up to be generic lcd (or crt, if they're that old) with the right resolution settings and see what happens that way. I've found that to work on a number of systems where even the "right" hardware setting did not work the way I wanted/expected it to....
As mentioned, did that to start. Since the two monitors are identical at this point, didn't have to dink with any of that to start. I did tweak them later to suit my preferences.
HTH, and ROR (Rots 'O Ruck, as opposed to LOL :-)
<*chuckle*> From what I've seen I'll needed it.
mhr
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