How to setup dual head?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Oct 6 20:23:25 UTC 2009


Orcan Ogetbil wrote:


> Later on, I told my colleagues that KDE improved a lot since 4.0 and
> they should give a try to 4.3. For a demonstration I installed KDE on
> my machine. I logged in and the first thing to do was to setup the
> dual head. I opened System Settings and as soon as I clicked on the
> Display, X crashed and I was thrown out. It was really a bad
> experience for a demonstration (kind of like Bill Gates' WinME video).
> I logged back in and ran krandrtray. This one crashed X too. I clicked
> on whatever I can find regarding the desktop setup and I found that
> everything on KDE that is related to the X settings crashes X.
> 
> I then had to spend 15 minutes to write an xorg.conf file from scratch
> to make the dual head work, while people were making comments in the
> lines of "this is why I don't like KDE"... :(

X crashing is almost certainly a driver bug (ie, querying randr items from 
the X server should be a relatively safe operation).

> So, what was my mistake? This box has an ATI card and has the open
> source radeon drivers (the proprietary drivers are not available on
> F-11). Should ATI users stick to F-10 if they want to use KDE, which
> has only 2 months of lifetime left?

I believe there's already a bug filed for that somewhere, lemme see... hrm, 
can't find it.  Please file one.

-- Rex




More information about the kde mailing list