Fedora-10 Dual-Head (ATI Radeon X1300)

[Not Ken Shabby]

2008-12-03

I have a ATI Radeon X1300 video card, with two LCD monitors attached:
1. Samsung SyncMaster 226BW
2. BenQ FP22W

Under Ubuntu-8.10 both monitors are detected, and supported correctly.

Under Fedora-10 if I try to "un-mirror" the monitors I cannot close the dialog - only cancel it.

And yes I have also tried installing from rpmfusion.org

If I try to modify the resolution of the monitors I can save the dialog, but I immediately loose all monitor support --- no GUI, no text, nothing, even on re-boot nothing but black screens.

I have only attempted to configure through 'point and click' --- I figure if it is offered it should work (?).

I know there are posts/messages saying "the ATI drivers are still under development" and "don't install the manufacturers drivers, only install from rpmfusion..."

What I cannot figure out is why if Ubuntu-8.10 can get it right - why it does not work under Fedora-10?

Cann't some just go get the drivers from Ubuntu and stick them in Fedora (or rpmfusion) ???

Of course everything works just fine under windows as well,

Anyone want to take this as a challenge and show that Fedora-10 is "just as good as Ubuntu" or ISB forbid Windows?!?!?

((( BTW: ISB = Imaqinary Supernatural Being --- which I am trying to substitute in to all phrases where people say .... GOD ... )))

Have a happy day (ISB willing)
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[danielsmw]

I am interested into looking into this because when I get home in a few weeks I plan to setup a dual display in Fedora. You should know, though, that I've successfully done it before, although I think it involved manually editing my xorg.conf file. Hopefully you're up for that. =)

Also, please note that Ubuntu and Fedora are generally geared toward different audiences. I love Fedora, but you have to remember that it's meant to be somewhat of a cutting edge operating system, always going for the new and experimental stuff, whereas Ubuntu is much more focused toward creating a stable desktop environment for the casual Linux user. One is not necessarily better than the other.

And no, someone can't just go take the driver from and Ubuntu repo and put it in a Fedora one. If you have a feeling that will work though, you're welcome to download the appropriate .deb package for Ubuntu and use the alien utility to make it a .rpm. ^_^

Anyway, let me know if you figure it out, because I'm curious. I haven't messed with dual displays in a while.

[schwim]

Daniel, his thread was responded to over at FF.org. I'm trying to get ready to set it up and found the thread while Googlificating.