Well I know I'm not alone in this as I've seen many problems in forums regarding this awfull combination of hard and software.

My problem is a little different from what I've seen though.

First of I'm new to linux, and I'm coming from Macrohard Windows XP. So bare with me.

I installed Red Hat 9 on its own separate partition with the native linux format, so booting isnt a problem. The wizard installed my video card as a radeon and recognized it as the 7500 it is with 64MB ram. Lifes good, 24 bit resolution and as big of resolution I'm used to (usally 1064x768 but it goes up to 1200x800).

Heres the problem: My screen only shows 640 x 480 at a time. I have to move the mouse around to view the rest of the screen. I.E. I'm at the toolbar at the bottom and I want to scroll up to home folder at the top. I have to take the mouse up to the top of the screen and it scrolls the remainder of my desktop till it gets to the top. Its quite aggervating.

Also, I have two outputs on my video card connected to two different monitors, right now only one works, and if possible I would like to extend my desktop to the second monitor similar to what my windows xp does. Is that possible?

If anyone can offer any assistance or direct me to something other than the xfree86.org/config page which hasnt really helped me much I would appereicate it.

And not so important but one more bug. I have the Intellemouse wireless Explorer, it has 5 buttons, Linux only recognizes 3 of them. Where do I reconfigure or download drivers for it.

Again I'm a newbie here, any help or explanationis appericated . Thanks again.

I might have figured out part of this problem. I checked my monitor and even though linux is running 800x600 the monitor is only at 640x480. So I need to configure something here to adjust the monitor.......The monitor is a KDS Radius7(discontinued), of course kdsusa has drivers for this monitor, and of course they are only availible for windows.

Have a similar such system but no such problem.
Also using an ATI Radeon 7500 running w/ monitor resolution of 1064x768, but with Fedora Core 1 instead of RH9.

Wish to upgrade to Fedora 2 or w/o hassles, so will monitor this for any useful replies.

Well I just ran all of the updates on red hat's site. And it sorta fixed the problem. Without any extra configuration my monitors are now working in clone mode and my CRT (NEC MulitsyncFE700+) is accepting larger resolutions. However my LCD (KDS Radius7) the one I like to use is still stuck in 640x480 Hf 31.6Hz Vf60Hz. I download dms which is supposed to extend the desktop like I mentioned ealier.

So my problem again seems to be with the discontinued monitor, which I have been very happy with up untill this point.

My monitor specs:
Max res 1280x1024 @ 75Hz
Horizontal 30 - 80kHz
Vertical 35-75Hz
Max Pixel Rate 135MHz

Panel Size: 413mm (W) x 418mm (H) x 175mm (D)
Type a-Si TFT LCD
Pixel Pitch 0.264mm (H) x .0264 mm (V)

Suggestions on configuration?

Hi,

Would it be possible for you to post your XFConfig, XFConfig-4 or Xorg.conf (should be located in /etc/X11 but redhat may do it differant and which one it is depends on your x server).

What the problem looks like is just a mis-configured screen section in the above file. There should be a tool to configure the screen resolution and whatnot with redhat but I don't know what it is called.

HTH

Just out of curiosity, are you using the opensource ati drivers or the propriety version?

BTW, you shouldn't need a driver for your monitor under linux.

Emu

# XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
#
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then
# this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you
# also use USB mice at the same time.
Identifier "DevInputMice"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Radius"
DisplaySize 413 418
HorizSync 30.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "ATI Radeon 7500"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

I removed the option "dmps" it didnt seem to have an effect. Also, I am using the ati radeon drivers that came with free86. Again the two monitors are cloning right now and the crt is running in 1024x760 fine. But my LCD flat panel is still stuck in 640x480.

WW) RADEON(0): Monitor0: using default vrefresh range of 43.00-72.00Hz
(II) RADEON(0): Clock range: 20.00 to 350.00 MHz
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "640x350" (hsync out of range)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "320x175" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "640x400" (hsync out of range)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "320x200" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "720x400" (hsync out of range)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "360x200" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (hsync out of range)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (hsync out of range)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (hsync out of range)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan)
(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range)

and it keeps going for a while

(II) RADEON(0): Supported Future Video Modes:
(II) RADEON(0): #0: hsize: 640 vsize 480 refresh: 85 vid: 22833
(II) RADEON(0): #1: hsize: 800 vsize 600 refresh: 85 vid: 22853
(II) RADEON(0): #2: hsize: 1024 vsize 768 refresh: 85 vid: 22881
(II) RADEON(0): #3: hsize: 1152 vsize 864 refresh: 75 vid: 20337
(II) RADEON(0): #4: hsize: 1280 vsize 960 refresh: 60 vid: 16513
(II) RADEON(0): #5: hsize: 1280 vsize 1024 refresh: 60 vid: 32897
(II) RADEON(0): Supported additional Video Mode:
(II) RADEON(0): clock: 94.5 MHz Image Size: 315 x 236 mm
(II) RADEON(0): h_active: 1024 h_sync: 1072 h_sync_end 1168 h_blank_end 1376 h_border: 0
(II) RADEON(0): v_active: 768 v_sync: 769 v_sync_end 772 v_blanking: 808 v_border: 0
(II) RADEON(0): Ranges: V min: 55 V max: 120 Hz, H min: 31 H max: 70 kHz, PixClock max 120 MHz
(II) RADEON(0): Monitor name: NEC FE700
(II) RADEON(0): Serial No: 0256270AF
(II) RADEON(0): End of DDC Monitor info

another snippet

(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "640x480" 31.50 640 664 704 832 480 489 491 520 -hsync -vsync
(**) RADEON(0): Default mode "640x480": 25.2 MHz, 31.5 kHz, 60.0 Hz
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "640x480" 25.20 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync
(**) RADEON(0): Default mode "640x480": 54.0 MHz, 60.0 kHz, 60.0 Hz (D)
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "640x480" 54.00 640 688 744 900 480 480 482 500 doublescan +hsync +vsync
(**) RADEON(0): Default mode "576x432": 54.0 MHz, 67.5 kHz, 75.0 Hz (D)
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "576x432" 54.00 576 608 672 800 432 432 434 450 doublescan +hsync +vsync
(**) RADEON(0): Default mode "512x384": 39.4 MHz, 60.1 kHz, 75.1 Hz (D)
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "512x384" 39.40 512 520 568 656 384 384 386 400 doublescan +hsync +vsync
(**) RADEON(0): Default mode "512x384": 37.5 MHz, 56.5 kHz, 70.1 Hz (D)
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "512x384" 37.50 512 524 592 664 384 385 388 403 doublescan -hsync -vsync
(**) RADEON(0): Default mode "512x384": 32.5 MHz, 48.4 kHz, 60.0 Hz (D)
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "512x384" 32.50 512 524 592 672 384 385 388 403 doublescan -hsync -vsync
(**) RADEON(0): Default mode "416x312": 28.6 MHz, 49.7 kHz, 74.7 Hz (D)
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "416x312" 28.64 416 432 464 576 312 312 314 333 doublescan -hsync -vsync
(**) RADEON(0): Default mode "400x300": 24.8 MHz, 46.9 kHz, 75.1 Hz (D)
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "400x300" 24.75 400 408 448 528 300 300 302 312 doublescan +hsync +vsync
(**) RADEON(0): Default mode "400x300": 25.0 MHz, 48.1 kHz, 72.2 Hz (D)
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "400x300" 25.00 400 428 488 520 300 318 321 333 doublescan +hsync +vsync
(**) RADEON(0): Default mode "400x300": 20.0 MHz, 37.9 kHz, 60.3 Hz (D)
(II) RADEON(0): Modeline "400x300" 20.00 400 420 484 528 300 300 302 314 doublescan +hsync +vsync
(**) RADEON(0): Display dimensions: (340, 270) mm
(WW) RADEON(0): Probed monitor is 330x240 mm, using Displaysize 340x270 mm
(**) RADEON(0): DPI set to (76, 72)
(II) Loading sub module "fb"

I found the answer to this problem at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...27#post1351227 posted by jib2

I am now playing with Xinerama to configure the multihead desktop