Dual Monitor Question

[Matt Smith]

Thanks for the help.  I am making a concerted effort to do everything in the
terminal and just purchased books to learn in depth.

Here is my video card type.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon
X300 (PCIE)]
You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root

Result of second command below:

Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1280 x 1024, maximum 1280 x 1024
default connected 1280x1024+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1280x1024       0.0*
   1024x768        0.0
   800x600         0.0
   640x480         0.0

finally when i typed in "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" I got the following

[root at Matt ~]# /var/log/Xorg.0.log
-bash: /var/log/Xorg.0.log: Permission denied

Thanks again for the help it is much appreciated

Matt






On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Matt, first of all, welcome to the Linux community! :-)
>
> On Monday 18 January 2010 17:52:56 Matt Smith wrote:
> > this is the message i get when trying to run system-config-display after
> > installing it
>
> It is a good idea not to rely on GUI tools, especially when troubleshooting
> something.
>
> This is how I would proceed --- plug in all monitors you have, open a
> terminal
> (xterm, konsole, shell, any such will do), and type:
>
> lspci | grep VGA
>
> (and press the enter/return key) to find out exactly what video hardware is
> being detected. Feel free to copy&paste the above command into a terminal,
> if
> you don't feel like typing. Then copy&paste the output of that when
> replying
> here.
>
> Second, type
>
> xrandr
>
> into the terminal, and copy&paste that output also into a reply.
>
> Once we have that information, we can tell you if any drivers need to be
> installed and how, and what to do to enable both monitors. Also, feel free
> to
> attach the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file to the message --- it might look
> cryptic to
> you at first, but it is an ultimate information source about what is going
> on
> with your display. It contains a lot of useful info (once you get
> accustomed
> to reading it).
>
> HTH, :-)
> Marko
>
> P.S. Since you are a newcomer to Linux, keep in mind that CLI (command line
> interface) terminals and shells are a Good Thing --- they can save a lot of
> time and grief, and are ultimately used when all GUI's fail... :-) The
> faster
> you learn to use the terminal (or at least get comfortable with the idea of
> using it) the easier you will learn Linux. And soon enough you will also
> find
> out that terminal is way more powerful than any GUI. This is a big change
> of
> perspective compared to Windows (where the MS-DOS prompt is useful only to
> a
> small minority of know-how people), and one of the first things newcomers
> typically stumble upon. ;-)
>
>
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