Dual Monitor Question

[Matt Smith]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> See attached

thanks again
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