[Gllug] Multiple Monitors with RedHat 8.0

[Simon Morris]

Tethys said:
>
> I personally don't think Xinerama's a win for most uses, and I tend to
> agree with the decision to have it turned off by default. Since I run my
> heads at different resolutions, Xinerama's not ideal anyway, and the
> only downside is that you can't drag windows between screens. But I
> haven't really needed to use that anyway, though that may just be a
> function of the way I work (one screen for daily use, one for
> monitoring).

Thanks for your help so far, everyone.

I'm now at the stage where I have 2 monitors connected. If I start X
(runlevel 5) with Xinerama then I can log in OK, but the screen freezes as
soon as I open any windows.

At the moment I've booted into runlevel 3, and done a startx from my user
account. I have a full Gnome desktop on my main monitor, and a plain X
desktop on the other. I can drag the mouse from one to the other, but no
windows.

How should I proceed from here? As Tet says above I don't really need a
stretched desktop, just the space of 2 monitors

I've attached my /etc/X11/XF86Config file below.... (Apologies to those
that aren't interested; it is a rather large output)


Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "dbe"
#	Load  "dri"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "xtrap"
	Load  "speedo"
	Load  "type1"
EndSection

#Section "ServerFlags"
#	Option	    "Xinerama" "on"
#EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "PS/2"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	#DisplaySize	  360   290	# mm
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "NEC"
	ModelName    "NEC LCD1830"
	HorizSync    24.0 - 82.0
	VertRefresh  55.0 - 85.0
	Option	    "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor1"
	VendorName   "AppleMonitor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
	DisplaySize  310	230
	HorizSync    31.0 - 61.0
	VertRefresh  56.0 - 76.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "HWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "PciRetry"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "rgbbits"            	# <i>
        #Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "TurboQueue"         	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "SetMClk"            	# <freq>
        #Option     "FastVram"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ForceCRT2Type"      	# [<str>]
        #Option     "ShadowFB"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Rotate"             	# [<str>]
        #Option     "NoXvideo"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Vesa"               	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "MaxXFBMem"          	# <i>
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "sis"
	VendorName  "SiS"
	BoardName   "6326"
	BusID       "PCI:2:8:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac8Bit"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ForcePCIMode"       	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "CPPIOMode"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "CPusecTimeout"      	# <i>
        #Option     "AGPMode"            	# <i>
        #Option     "AGPSize"            	# <i>
        #Option     "RingSize"           	# <i>
        #Option     "BufferSize"         	# <i>
        #Option     "EnableDepthMoves"   	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "CrtScreen"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "PanelSize"          	# [<str>]
        #Option     "UseFBDev"           	# [<bool>]
	Identifier  "Card1"
	Driver      "ati"
	VendorName  "ATI"
	BoardName   "Radeon 7500 QW"
	#BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     16
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     1
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     4
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     8
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     15
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     16
		Modes    "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen1"
	Device     "Card1"
	Monitor    "Monitor1"
	DefaultDepth     16
	Subsection "Display"
	Depth 16
	Modes "800x600"
	EndSubsection
EndSection










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