Hardware: ATI Radeon x1300, ViewSonic
LCD monitors(In fact, It can be any LCD);
Software: Fedora 6
The most important is to update ATI
Driver for Fedora. Fedora 6 supports ATI Radeon x1300 by default. But
it does not support two monitors(or the two monitors look like a
mirror of each other).
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Install ATI driver for
fedora(logon as root)
rpm
-Uhv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
yum install
kmod-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
yum update kmod-fglrx
xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
fglrx?
Yes. It is for ATI Radeon.
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Make
a copy of /etc/X11/xorg.conf, such as cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.save, in
case of any exception.
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Open
a terminal:
#
export PATH=/opt/ati/bin:$PATH
/opt/ati/bin/aticonfig
--initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf
aticonfig
--initial=dual-head --screen-layout=right
aticonfig --dtop=horizontal --overlay-on=1
aticonfig --resolution=0,2048x768,1024x768
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edit
/etc/X11/xorg.conf. In my case its content is below.
#
Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section
"ServerLayout"
Identifier
"single head configuration"
Screen
0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice
"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section
"Files"
EndSection
Section
"Module"
EndSection
Section
"InputDevice"
Identifier
"Keyboard0"
Driver
"kbd"
Option
"XkbModel" "pc105"
Option
"XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section
"Monitor"
Identifier
"aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option
"VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option
"ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option
"DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section
"Monitor"
Identifier
"aticonfig-Monitor[1]"
Option
"VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option
"ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option
"DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section
"Device"
Identifier
"aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver
"fglrx"
Option
"DesktopSetup" "horizontal"
Option
"OverlayOnCRTC2" "1"
EndSection
Section
"Device"
Identifier
"aticonfig-Device[1]"
Driver
"fglrx"
EndSection
Section
"Screen"
Identifier
"aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device
"aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor
"aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth
24
SubSection
"Display"
Viewport
0 0
Depth
24
Modes
"2560x1024" "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section
"Screen"
Identifier
"aticonfig-Screen[1]"
Device
"aticonfig-Device[1]"
Monitor
"aticonfig-Monitor[1]"
DefaultDepth
24
Option
"Xinerama" "on"
Option
"Clone" "off"
SubSection
"Display"
Viewport
0 0
Depth
24
Modes
"1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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In
a termainl, input “init 3” to close the X window and turn to the
Text Mode.
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IN
the Text Mode, logon as root. Input “init 5” to restart X
window. As we can see, It works!
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If
any exception occurs and Fedora can not start, please restore
/etc/X11/xorg.conf with the backup copy.