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 > > -- > Peter Serwe <peter at infostreet dot com> > > http://www.infostreet.com > > "The only true sports are bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto > racing." -Earnest Hemingway > > "Because everything else requires only one ball." -Unknown > > "Do you wanna go fast or suck?" -Mike Kojima > > "There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make > love." -Sir Stirling Moss > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070115/5f63bbcb/attachment-0005.html>