[Westwales] Mandriva and dual monitors, among other things

[Michael Sheldon]

Hi Jon,

>  First, I have a dual monitor setup and I can't find any way of getting 
> Mandriva to recognise this - consequently, it's putting everything on 
> the smaller monitor, which is annoying. Any suggestions as to how I 
> could get it to recognise the second monitor and use it... Even if it 
> mirrored, it'd be better than nothing. My graphics card is a 32MB ATi 
> Rage Mobility M7.

  I was under the impression that the Mobility M7 was a Radeon based 
chip, rather than a Rage based chip? Anyway, attached is a copy of my 
Xinerama based settings for my dualhead M9 (Radeon based). If your card 
really is Rage based you'll want to change the "Driver" option. You may 
also want to change the "MonitorLayout" option (if you're unsure you 
might get away with setting it to "Auto, Auto"). You might also need to 
adjust the BusID depending on your machine, this often doesn't require 
being set though.

  I believe Mandriva now uses xorg? So you'll probably want to save it 
to /etc/X11/xorg.conf (be sure to make a backup of your current version 
first, just in case).

Good luck,
  Mike.

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Section "Module"
        Load    "GLcore"
        Load    "bitmap"
        Load    "dbe"
        Load    "ddc"
        Load    "extmod"
        Load    "freetype"
        Load    "glx"
        Load    "int10"
        Load    "record"
        Load    "speedo"
        Load    "type1"
        Load    "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "keyboard"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
	Option 		"XkbLayout"	"gb"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Radeon0"
        Driver          "radeon"
        VendorName      "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName       "Radeon Mobility M9"
        BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
        Screen          0
        Option          "AGPMode" "4"
        Option          "MonitorLayout" "LVDS, CRT"
        Option          "CloneMode" "OFF"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Radeon1"
        Driver          "radeon"
        VendorName      "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName       "Radeon Mobility M9"
        BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
        Screen          1
        Option          "MonitorLayout" "LVDS, CRT"
        Option          "CloneMode" "OFF"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Interner Monitor"
        #HorizSync      60
        #VertRefresh    75
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Externer Monitor"
        #HorizSync       60
        #VertRefresh     75
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Device          "Radeon0"
        Monitor         "Interner Monitor"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   24
                Modes   "1400x1050"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "External Screen"
        Device          "Radeon1"
        Monitor         "Externer Monitor"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   24
                Modes   "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          0 "Default Screen" 0 0
        Screen          1 "External Screen" LeftOf "Default Screen"
        InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice     "Configured Mouse"
        Option          "Xinerama" "true"
EndSection