On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 10:16 -0700, MHR wrote: > <snip> SYNOPSIS: In case you missed or lost the start of this thread, I was setting up two displays, one per video card, on my CentOS 4.6. This was testing before applying the same setup to my 5.2 system, upon which I run an application critical to me. The kudzu detection worked correctly and system-config-display (a symlink to consolehelper) generated a new xorg.conf. THIS WAS AN ERRONEOUS CONFIGURATION FILE. In the second Section "Device" it inserted "Screen 1". This is an error *unless* there is a second port on the video card and it is being used. In that case it is mandatory. > HTH, and ROR (Rots 'O Ruck, as opposed to LOL :-) Well, didn't get it on the net within a reasonable (? excessive knowing me) number of searches and threads read. So I decided to make my own luck. Genetically, I'm predisposed to banging heads (usually my own, occasionally heads of others) against brick walls. So I naturally started reading man pages. I guess I'm masochistic to some degree. Anyway, about the third one I looked at, xorg.conf, it started laying out the options and their meanings. As soon as I saw the description of the "Screen" parameter, I knew because that card I added doesn't have a second port. The primary card does have the standard analogue, DVI and S-video outputs. Maybe the configurator is not intelligent enough to discern between the two cards when they are both the same chip sets. Anyway, hurdle 1 cleared. Now to get it to do what I want it too - spread one view port across the two monitors. Thanks to all those who responded and tried to help. If anyone would test and confirm this is not site-specific, I will post a bug on it. I'll also be doing this on my 5.2 in the near future. I'll be interested to see if the bug exists there also. > > mhr > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill