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04-29-2006, 12:02 AM
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Registered: Nov 2001
Distribution: Red Hat
Posts: 23
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Why does dual display work in KDE but not Gnome?
Any ideas why I could successfully configure my ATI Fire GL Z-128 display driver to operate in dual-head mode with two different desktops using KDE but can only operate in single monitor on Gnome? Also, has anyone successfully used on Linux the various ATI dual-head features available in XP (click to size to both screens, switch windows between screens, etc.) .
I am running on Fedora 4.
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04-29-2006, 04:28 AM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Seattle, WA
Distribution: Kubuntu 14.04 LTS
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Originally Posted by jackopa
Any ideas why I could successfully configure my ATI Fire GL Z-128 display driver to operate in dual-head mode with two different desktops using KDE but can only operate in single monitor on Gnome? Also, has anyone successfully used on Linux the various ATI dual-head features available in XP (click to size to both screens, switch windows between screens, etc.) .
I am running on Fedora 4.
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How did you configure your dual-head display? If you used the system-config-display utility, then it should not matter which desktop environment you use. |
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04-30-2006, 10:04 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2001
Distribution: Red Hat
Posts: 23
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Why does dual-display work in KDE but not Gnome?
Thanks for the reply. Did not use system-config-display as ATI said to use only aticonfig which is installed with the ATI driver installer in /usr/X11R6/bin. I did check out system-config-display however and it doesn't appear to have the ability to configure the ATI card properly. Can't understand how dual-screen features work fine in KDE but only get single screen with limited functionality in Gnome.???
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04-30-2006, 10:28 PM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Seattle, WA
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Originally Posted by jackopa
Thanks for the reply. Did not use system-config-display as ATI said to use only aticonfig which is installed with the ATI driver installer in /usr/X11R6/bin. I did check out system-config-display however and it doesn't appear to have the ability to configure the ATI card properly. Can't understand how dual-screen features work fine in KDE but only get single screen with limited functionality in Gnome.???
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Where did you get your ATI driver? Livna provides the FC4 package for the ATI driver, and if you install that, I don't see why you cannot use system-config-display to configure dual-display, be it for ATI or nVidia. I could be wrong, though... |
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05-02-2006, 12:42 AM
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Why does dual-display work in KDE but not Gnome?
Thanks again for reply. I got the ATI driver from ATI website. Since I hadn't tried the Livna package just for the heck of it I uninstalled the ATI driver and then installed the Livna one. Then used system-config-display. Unfortunately I got same results on KDE as I had previously on Gnome. Also confirmed that system-config does not have the ability to configure my card with most of the options that ati-config does.I ended up re-installing ati-config . Guess I will just have to be happy with using KDE only in dual-head mode.
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05-02-2006, 01:54 AM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Seattle, WA
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Originally Posted by jackopa
Thanks again for reply. I got the ATI driver from ATI website. Since I hadn't tried the Livna package just for the heck of it I uninstalled the ATI driver and then installed the Livna one. Then used system-config-display. Unfortunately I got same results on KDE as I had previously on Gnome. Also confirmed that system-config does not have the ability to configure my card with most of the options that ati-config does.I ended up re-installing ati-config . Guess I will just have to be happy with using KDE only in dual-head mode.
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Sorry to hear that. I guess I've never run into that issue myself since I'm a KDE user...  |
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