Fedora 12 on ati radeon laptop

[Kevin Kempter]

On Tuesday 19 January 2010 07:55:03 François Cami wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:04:27 -0700
> 
> Kevin Kempter <kevink at consistentstate.com> wrote:
> > how can I get dual monitors working on it? I dont care about 3D. I
> > enabled the rpmfusion repos. I tried to install the kmod-fglrx package
> > via yum but I get a message that no package kmod-fglrx is available.
> 
> You should not need fglrx to get your dual monitor setup working. If
> you _want_ to use fglrx, this is not the place to ask.
> 
> With that behind us:
> What is the name of your video card (from lspci output)?
> What is the output of "xrandr" when the secondary monitor is plugged?
> If it doesn't work, you should file a bug at bugzilla.redhat.com with the
> following information, with both monitors plugged in:
> /var/log/dmesg after booting with drm.debug=15
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> 
> F
> 

Thanks for the feedback. Here's where I'm at:


I installed system-config-display

If I plug the second monitor into the laptop before I boot, then it partially 
works as is, if I open say a Konsole then it opens on the second screen. 
However I cannot move my mouse to the second screen which makes it pretty 
difficult to use te newly started konsole window.


So, I tried running system-config-display, I checked the boz for it to use dual 
head but when I clicked OK I get this :

system-config-display                                  
Traceback (most recent call last):                     
  File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog.py", line 211, in ok
    if card.getDescription() == 
self.secondVideocardOptionMenu.get_menu().get_active().get_data("NAME"):


Am I going about this wrong?

Here's my xrandr output:


# xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 900, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA-0 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
   1440x900       59.9 +   75.0
   1280x1024      75.0     70.0     60.0
   1152x864       75.0
   1024x768       75.1     70.1     60.0
   832x624        74.6
   800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2
   640x480        72.8     75.0     66.7     60.0
   720x400        70.1
LVDS connected 1600x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 382mm x 
214mm
   1600x900       60.3*+
   1440x900       59.9
   1280x854       59.9
   1280x800       59.8
   1280x720       59.9
   1152x768       59.8
   1024x768       60.0     59.9
   800x600        60.3     59.9     56.2
   848x480        59.7
   720x480        59.7
   640x480        59.9     59.4