Dual Monitor using Suse10

mayaLinux · 02-08-2006, 02:33 PM

hello...

There used to be dual head mode in Suse9.3 that would allow for dual monitor flexibility. Now that I've installed Suse10, I'm unable to use dual monitor feature as I see none. I'm using matrox dual head card which is not a problem coz I know I had it working under 9.3.

any suggestions/advice would be much appreciated.

RedShirt · 02-08-2006, 02:35 PM

For which card? Best way is propietary drivers from ATI or Nvidia. But for ATI do not setup dual head/multiple monitors until AFTER the reboot and then do it from their GUI. Saves a world of hurt.

mayaLinux · 02-08-2006, 05:04 PM

hi

As I had mentioned, its the matrox card - I'd like to know what package or library do I need to install in order to have that capability.

thx

KimVette · 02-08-2006, 06:52 PM

The version of SaX2 shipped with SuSE 10 is very broken - I had to build the xorg.conf by hand. However SaX2 has since been fixed and updated builds can be had from ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/sax/head-build/suse-10.0

dutch_sr · 05-09-2006, 01:50 PM

the above link is no longer valid, they've updated the folder structure to allow both i386 and x86_64 to have separate downloads. ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/sax/head-build from here is a choice based on your architecture.