Dual head setup using ATI Radeon 7000/VE (Dell GX260)

[Peter Eddy]

John Rehmert wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've been wrestling with trying to get dual head working (spanning or 
> individual desktops) on a Dell Optiplex GX260, ATI Radeon 7000/VE vid 
> card, a Dell/Sony 1801FP LCD, and a Dell/Sony 1800FP LCD.  I've googled 
> the heck out of this one, but none of the 10-15 useful links (used many 
> mods to XF86Config) got me rolling.  I thought somebody out in 
> Fedora-List Land might have the same setup with dual head working - 
> either in spanning or individual desktop mode.

Here's what I used to get my Dell Optiplex GX260 working in xinerama mode:

http://www.linuxanswers.net/index.php?cmd=howto&key=dual-head-xinerama

I have an nVidia GeForce2 MX 100 and the built-in Intel 82845G 
(Brookdale-G) adapeter.

It's working very well though getting it working required a few tweaks 
to the XF86Config file after the initial X -xf86config step.

For some reason recent versions of KDE don't use font anti-aliasing in 
dual-head mode. It used to work just fine, something to do with using 
hardware anti-aliasing.

You can make it better by not using a font server, and just specifying 
font paths directly in XF86Config, though it's still not great. I'm 
using XFCE instead and it's great.

Peter