CentOS - Jan 2007 - Dual Heads?

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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love." -Sir Stirling Moss

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
>
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Ian Harper wrote:
> 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.
> 
if you are using the ATI drivers, have you tried using their tool to do 
the xorg config's ? I've had my laptop ( a Turion ATI setup ) running 
with Dual head in Span move, and with TV out with the ati proprietary 
drivers.

Unfortunately I dont have that setup anymore or I would have posted my 
xorg.conf

- K
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