Fedora Core 5 Dual Head

[Rick Stevens]

On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 12:59 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> When I turn on Dual Head for X.org, it looks like the second monitor has a
> bad horizontal sync setting. With FC4, it worked out of the box, first try.
> I've edited xorg.conf to no avail as system-config-display messes things up
> rather than making it easier. On FC4, I could probe the monitor and it would
> come back correctly. No such option here, or am I running the wrong app?

Which video card are you using, Karl?  If it's nVidia, did you install
a new binary driver and if so, try using their config tool.

> One very annoying little side affect is that the bottom panel is now in the
> middle of the screen and one I added to the side is about 1/3rd of the way
> off the right edge. I can't get those to behave either...

That's definitely either a vsync issue or a resolution issue.

To be honest, I'm just now getting a machine up to run FC5 (haven't had
the time until now), so I'll be in a better position to answer FC5
issues later.
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