Dual Monitor Question

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: 
> On 01/18/2010 10:36 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 10:06 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: 
> >   
> >> Matt Smith writes:
> >>
> >>     
> >>> I am very very new to Linux and Fedora 12 is the first OS I am working 
> >>> with.  Can someone explain to me in detail how to get my dual monitor 
> >>> setup working?  I have searched all over the internet to no avail.  I have 
> >>> a dell monitor and a samsung monitor.  I am not sure what video card i 
> >>> have and i dont know how to check or find that out since i am new to 
> >>> fedora.  Any help is much appreciated.
> >>>       
> >> To determine your video card:
> >>
> >> Open "System → Administration → Display", then the "Hardware" tab. This 
> >> shows your video card. Additionally, the "Configure" button shows your video 
> >> driver. The video card may be occasionally listed as "unknown video card", 
> >> even though you obviously have a working video driver. And even if the video 
> >> card is listed, it is likely to be a generic name. Run the "lspci -v" 
> >> command in your terminal window. The resulting output will include your 
> >> detailed video card hardware info.
> >>
> >>     
> > I have no System->Administration->Display in my menus. What program does
> > this represent?
> >
> >   
> You can install it from the command line:
> sudo yum install system-config-display
> 
That is interesting. I thought that system-config-display produced
System->Preferences->Display. But I see it is produced by:
gnome-display-properties. Sort of confusing. Thanks for straightening me
out.


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