Dual head display issues with Warty

[Gary Jarrel]

Same here have been at ATI person ever since I purchased my laptop. But
thats the setup I've got 8 desktops 4 on each monitor, and 2 separate
instances of X running on each monitor. 

I've had really strange issues with funny pictures on monitor, due to
strange syncs (i.e. horizontal or vertical) 

If you have two separate instances of X one for each monitor than you
are able to run different resolutions on each instance. My setup runs
1600x1200 on primary monitor, and in the second instance I run 1280x1024
on the secondary monitor. 

I'm also using Gnome as well not KDE (but it shouldn't really matter)
I've tried kubuntu and both monitors worked fine, but I'm not a big fan
of KDE so I got rid of it. 

It maybe difficult to setup dual monitor on linux as compared to
windows, but I think in the time I spent doing it (without getting help
from any mailing lists) I've learnt extremely valuable lessons about X
and configuring linux in general, especially since I was new to linux at
the time. 

Thats my 5 cents :)

- Gary

On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 02:18 -0500, bobmitch wrote:
> kruppe Wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > Could you please point out where I am going wrong? 
> > Am I missing something?
> > How does 3D accel affect the setup?
> > Can you run different resolutions without enabling the virtual desktop
> > size?
> > How would multiple heads word with my existing 8 desktop configuration
> > in KDE?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.  ;-)
> 
> Can`t help with your nvidia specific issue (I`m an ATI guy at the
> moment).
> 
> I can tell you that you will still have 8 desktops - but they will all
> be bloody big. :)
> If you want eight desktops, 2 showing at a time (one one each monitor)
> I believe you will have to somehow run two seperate instances of X on
> each display.
> 
> Not much help, I know, but it`s all I got.
> 
> 
> -- 
> bobmitch
>