[CentOS] Dual Heads?

[Ian Harper]

I had similar probs with and IBM desktop - ended up replacing ATI card with
a dual head card (Nvidia GeForce) and now all works a treat.

Ian

On 13/01/07, Peter Serwe <peter at infostreet.com> wrote:
>
> I decided to blow out the FC2 installation I inherited on my workstation
> when I started here and installed CentOS-4.4-i386.  Server side stuff I
> pretty
> much have down cold, but getting two heads on two seperate video cards
> doesn't seem to work for me.  I'm using the built in Intel 865/810 card as
> primary, and an ATI Radeon 9200 PCI card as secondary.
>
> Initially, my system bios on this Dell 4600 was set to Auto for which card
> is primary.  That made the ATI card primary.  Configuring the 865 card
> as secondary, and I have the same monitor on both heads, didn't seem to
> do anything for me.
>
> Then, I set the onboard video as primary, went back into
> system-config-display
> and configured the ATI card as secondary, logout/login still nothing
> changed.
>
> I'm trying to get it to configure as 'spanning desktops', so I just have
> twice as
> much real estate, and ideally can drag in between.
>
> Anyone have suggestions?  Also, in general, the wm is pretty bland, so
> suggestions
> to make it a little more fun would be good too.
>
> :)
>
> Peter
>
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>
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