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Re: Dual Head Support with Radeon 9600SE VGA/DVi Kubuntu Xorg

TimIgoe — Sun Jun 26, 2005 6:02 pm

Author: TimIgoe

Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 6:02 pm

Using the ATI control panel software - you can select how you want the dual head to be set up
You should have a line like this in teh xorg.conf assuming your using the fglrx drivers. If not - get them from ATi

Option "DesktopSetup" "0x00000201"

In that case, it sets up my dual head with my primary screen being on the VGA and on the left of the 2nd (DVI and right)

Re: Dual Head Support with Radeon 9600SE VGA/DVi Kubuntu Xorg

youlikeicecream — Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:15 am

Author: youlikeicecream

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:15 am

Apparently Nvidia is the way to go... they have better driver support in Linux. If you are using windows then either card will give you dual-head support. I believe i might need a Free86 driver for my card instead of Xorg.

Mike

Re: Dual Head Support with Radeon 9600SE VGA/DVi Kubuntu Xorg

korrka — Sun Jun 12, 2005 8:59 pm

Author: korrka

Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 8:59 pm

Hello Mike
I would be very interested to know about your experience with dual head ATI and/or nvidia

some time ago I have bopught ATI Radeon 9200 SE (claimed dual head support)
and I did not even find the second vga output.

Now I am thinking about buying an nVidia card.

Let me know please how it all works for you

Korrka

RE: Dual Head Support with Radeon 9600SE VGA/DVi Kubuntu Xor

youlikeicecream — Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:35 pm

Author: youlikeicecream

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:35 pm

thanks Nigel, will have a look at em whe i get home from work , just grabbed an gigabyte Nvidia MX4000 with DVI and VGA, which i will have a bash with too.

Mike

RE: Dual Head Support with Radeon 9600SE VGA/DVi Kubuntu Xor

Nigel — Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:47 pm

Author: Nigel

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:47 pm

Hmmm... assuming it is actually possible to drive the VGA and DVI ports separately, perhaps this will help...

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-22412.html

or maybe this...

http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2004-November/004784.html
(follow the thread forwards a couple of posts for a possible solution)

RE: Dual Head Support with Radeon 9600SE VGA/DVi Kubuntu Xor

youlikeicecream — Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:42 pm

Author: youlikeicecream

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:42 pm

you can get graphics cards with vga and dvi for under �40

at the end of the day i thnk i should have bought an Nvidia, but someone convinced me to get a cheap ATI card instead of a cheap Nvidia card

thanks anyway Nigel

RE: Dual Head Support with Radeon 9600SE VGA/DVi Kubuntu Xor

youlikeicecream — Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:41 pm

Author: youlikeicecream

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:41 pm

I installed the extensions but I still cant get it to detect my Monitors. It wont detect them as plug and play i have to specify them (as one monitor) manually.

do you know how i could configure a monitor in the xorg config file manually?

i can post my config if necissary

RE: Dual Head Support with Radeon 9600SE VGA/DVi Kubuntu Xor

Nigel — Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:31 pm

Author: Nigel

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:31 pm

What you are looking for is the Xinerama extensions to X.
Beyond that, I'm afraid I can't help as I don't have a dual-head machine to play with

RE: Dual Head Support with Radeon 9600SE VGA/DVi Kubuntu Xor

youlikeicecream — Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:49 pm

Author: youlikeicecream

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:49 pm

anyone?

Dual Head Support with Radeon 9600SE VGA/DVi Kubuntu Xorg

youlikeicecream — Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:43 am

Author: youlikeicecream

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 11:43 am

Is there some way I can manually specify a new adapter / monitor within the xorg config file myself in order to get dual head functionality. At the moment my 2 monitors display the same screen, but I would like a desktop spread accross the 2. Have had a poke around the internet and found that ATi make rubbish Linuxware (should have bought nVidia - damn). Have got the Ati control panel installed and ... Kubuntu - Hoary Hedgehog, Kde3.4, Xorg 6.8.2-10 and xorg-driver-fglrx 6.8.0-8.8.25.

Mike