Dual Monitor Question

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Wednesday 20 January 2010 01:26:06 Matt Smith wrote:
> i will definitely check out the guidlines, sorry for that.  I read about
>  100 pages in a linux book and can now at least navigate the file system. 
>  i attached the Xorg.0.log file.  Thanks again for the help.

Ok, the log was very informative. As I suspected, you are running the vesa 
driver. While it does work, vesa is  standard catch-all driver for any generic 
video card. As such, its capabilities are fairly limited, and you want to use 
the radeon driver instead.

Second, I see that you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf  file that X server is using. 
The settings in this file are very important, because it controls how X should 
work.

This is also the file you need to edit in order to activate the radeon driver 
and get a dual-monitor system (hopefully). Attach it and post it here, and 
then I'll tell you exactly what and how to modify in it.

I would have asked for it before if I knew you had one. By default this file 
does not exist and X autoconfigures itself, so I assumed you didn't have it...

Best, :-)
Marko