How to setup dual head?

[Christian González]

2009/10/8 Sven Lankes <sven at lank.es>

> On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 09:25:33AM -0400, Christian González wrote:
>
> >>> What is wrong with "System Settings -> Display"? Works fine for setting
> >>> up dual-head for me.
>
> > Confirmed. "System Settings -  Display" don't work for dual-head (at
> least
> > here). All I get when clicking the multi-monitor module is a message:
> > "This module is only for configuring systems with a single desktop spread
> > across multiple monitors. You do not appear to have this configuration."
> > Note that using "xrandr --output VGA1 --right-of LVDS1" or Arandr works
> like
> > a charm.
>
> You said that you're using intel graphics?
>
> As far as I know for F11 there is a huge difference between 965 and
> newer chipsets vs. everything else (8xx etc.).
>

 [christian at laptop ~]$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)

So if you're using an 8xx chipset there is a good chance that stuff will
> just work once F12 is released as the new intel driver (in combination
> with the new kernel) fixes a lot of issues with those chips.
>

Altought I'm not using 8xx, I'm tempted to switch to Rawhide just for
testing the new driver and kernel. Is Rawhide in good state right now? IIRC,
Beta is close.
-- 
Christian González G.
http://chgonzalez.blogspot.com
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