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I have been able to use two monitors under Red Hat 8 and running KDE on two ATI cards. I believe it is in a twin mode. They both have desktops and can not drag windows between the two. I can copy and paste. I would like to have one large desktop with only one redhat menu.
I know in my XF86Config file
Section "ServerFlags"
"Xinemera" "True"
End Section
freezes my computer and I can not get past the GUI login screen.
What is the difference between cloneview, twinview, any other view? How can I get one large desktop?
The machine is probably still up, it might be confusing gdm, that login display manager, but I doubt it... what's the log look like? /var/log/XFree86.0.log
No need to try and paste the whole thing, just anything with (EE) sections, definately cut out the mode search section.
Have you tried bypassing the login goop? You can change the default runlevel for bootup to 3 instead of 5 in /etc/inittab and then when you next boot you'll see a tty and a login prompt. Login and type: startx and that'll launch X just as your user endrunning GDM... which shouldn't be the bug, but its worth a shot if you want to try it and its easy enough to change runlevels.
I did a lot of looking around, but I kinda need a little more to go on, can you post in the 10 or so lines above the EE so I can figure out what part of initialization it was in? It double errored on DFP, which I can't find the definition for, but seems to be something DRI oriented, with xinerama on, you can't use DRI anyway, so you might want to take the module load the the DRI sections out of the XF file for the time being.
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