Dual head setup using ATI Radeon 7000/VE (Dell GX260)
Peter Eddy
petere at atg.com
Wed Feb 25 21:56:25 UTC 2004
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
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