Dual display in Red Hat Linux?

[Gene Dascher]

I think that Gai wants 2 different desktops or a(n?) xinerama desktop, not
to see the same desktop on both the laptop's LCD and the CRT.  I have been
waiting for this kind of support under XFree86 for my laptop's video card
for a while, as I have that functionality under Win98.  I have a Dell
Inspirion 5000e with the ATI Rage Mobility 128 video card.

To check to see if your video card indeed has 2 different "instances", type
cat /proc/pci and see if the card is listed twice.  If so, set up an
XF86Config-4 file in a dual-display configuration (check out the XFree docs
on how to do it) and use each Bus ID in a Device section.  If not, do the
same setup and use the same Bus ID in each Device section.  I have not had
any joy trying to get this to work on my laptop YET, but I keep hoping that
the ati driver will one day support this.

Gene

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of zscoundrel
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:03 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Dual display in Red Hat Linux?
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> My think pad uses a function key to toggle from screen to external
> monitor to both.  This is a hardware function though, not software.
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> Gai Ming wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > I am running RH7.2 on my laptop. Is there any ways for me to dual
> > display with another monitor connected to my laptop, just like in
> > windows we can extend our desktop to another monitor connected?
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> > Thanks,
> > GM
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