I've tried one of the tutorials but it wasn't tailored appropriately to my situation (it was made up to support 2 video cards instead of a dual port one), and because of that there was no way to figure out exactly how to modify. Also it was inspecific about a few things that I thought needed specificity because I come from the "windows world" where it's not necessary to edit an XF86Config file.. lol
Anyway, so here is my old file that was causing xfree not to start.. please help me correct if you can..
Code:
# File generated by XFdrake.
# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************
Section "Files"
# Multiple Fosion within a session too (like vmware), but I forget what that was...
sion within a session too (like vmware), but I forget what that was...
ntPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer
Load "dri" # direct rendering
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "en_US"
Option "XkbOptions" ""
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
VendorName "Plug'n Play"
HorizSync 30-96
VertRefresh 50-160
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor2"
VendorName "Plug'n Play"
HorizSync 30-96
VertRefresh 50-160
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "ATI Radeon (fglrx)"
Driver "radeon"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultColorDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Virtual 1600 1200
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen2"
Device "device1"
Monitor "monitor2"
DefaultColorDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Virtual 1600 1200
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout1"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
Screen "screen2"
Screen "screen1" LeftOf "screen2"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Xinerama" "true"
EndSection
My hardware, as I'm sure it's important...
Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB
2 19" monitors, 1 Envision and 1 Sylvania (i figure I'll use a generic driver for both)
and tell me if anything else is important to know.. oh, and once again I'm running mandrake 10 so if there is some wizard I've missed I wouldn't mind doing that but ehh.. it'd be nice to be able to do it the right way also for future reference.
Thanks.. oh.. I want both of them to have 1600x1200 viewing area.. so I guess that's 3200x1200 total.
EDIT: Also whenever I figure it out I also want to be able to use Unreal Tournament, will I have to reconfigure this file or something to have it display only in one monitor? Is there a way not to have to do that? Or perhaps a way to attach the config file to the user logging in?
