2006-04-22

Fedora Core 5 and Dual Head or rather MergedFB

With FC5 and X11R7 things have changedfor Dual Head.

'man radeon' was *extreamly* helpful. Real documentation.

For the ATI Radeon driver on an IBM ThinkPad T30, I left out "Xinerama" and "Clone" from the "ServerLayout" section and added the following to the "Device" section:

Option "MonitorLayout" "LCD, VGA"
Option "MergedFB" "True"
Option "CRT2Position" "LeftOf"
Option "MetaModes" "1024x768-1280x1024"
Option "MergedNonRectangular" "True"

Also in the "Display" SubSection of the "Screen" Section added

Virtual 2304 1024

So, all is well after 'pkill -HUP X11' except that I had to move panels and icons back to the laptop LCD as I intend that to be the primary. I didn't try "MergedFB" "Auto".

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