[CentOS] Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head

[William L. Maltby]

On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 10:16 -0700, MHR wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:54 AM, William L. Maltby
> <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-May/080915.html
> >
> ><snip>

> 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
> <snip sig stuff>

As we say when in Rome - A-rubber-ducky!

-- 
Bill