Dual monitors in FC3? (ati)

[Brilwing]

I had the same problem on my Sony Vaio that after the reboot with the dual monitor configured the notebook totally freezes.
I found a solution for this. You have to disable the graphical boot in the grub.conf
Remove the 'rhgb' from the kernel line so that it looks like:

title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img

[rhoekstra]

I found this out earlier this week too.. I FINALLY have dual head operational on my laptop (HP NC8000, though without the ati reference drivers, so no 3D ACCEL), but it froze on boot time.

removing rhgb did resolve this issue. Though the system is working now, it IS a workaround. I would like to know what is causing this and if this is being resolved in the near future.

Anyone have more info on this?

[blimbo]

I've done it!!!!!!!!!

Phew, cheers guys. What Scoob_E said + what Rhoekstra said and I've gote Xinerama working on a radeon 9000 on FC3. Good work everyone!

[Scoob_E]

none that I noticed, if there was anything it wasn't serious or bad enough to notice

Scoob

[lmandrake]

This little cheat worked for me too. Thanks Brilwing

[mhwarfield]

Just don't try to switch virtual consoles (to a text console or to another X session on another vc). Seems to be switching virtual consoles is broken when the X server that is being switched from is in a multihead mode. It hangs for me burning CPU time (I sshed into the box from another box and ran top). Killing the X process and restarting GDM will restart your login. Hitting Cntrl-Alt-Fn to switch to anything will kill it again.

[amballester]

Hello all,

I have the same problem ,but ,when I run (remotely) "modprobe radeon" everything works
fine.

Now,how can I put the module in the boot procedure?

This is my xorg.conf (Radeon 7000 + 2 TFT) :

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Multihead layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
Option "Clone" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.

RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"

# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"

# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "es"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1280x1024"
DisplaySize 340 270
HorizSync 31.5 - 67.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1280x1024"
HorizSync 31.5 - 67.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "ATI Radeon 7000"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "Videocard Vendor"
BoardName "ATI Radeon 7000"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Videocard1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

Thanks in advance !!!

[oliinman]

Upgraded to lates, have the latest sysconfig Radeon 7200 and a Stealth S60 - I believe it is working but cant tell... Any input would be appreciated...

-Lane