Dual Screen Mode

[Greg Lindstrom]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Greg Lindstrom <gslindstrom at gmail.com <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users>> wrote:
>/ Hello,
/>/
/>/ I am trying to configure my computer for dual screens,  I have looked at
/>/ this article on the Ubuntu wiki and have tried various changes to my
/>/ /etc/X11/xorg.conf file but now I have both screens in "low resolution" mode
/>/ and I am stumped.  If anyone can help me out I would be grateful.
/>/
/>/ I am running a Dell Dimension 2400 and I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 with 2
/>/ Hanns-G JC199A monitors.
/>/
/>/ Thanks,
/>/
/>/ Greg Lindstrom
/>/ Little Rock, AR
/>/
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/Hi

Could you please post your xorg.conf?

Neil
-- 


This is my effort after reading various posts off the wiki.  Thanks for 
looking at it.

--greg

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Radeon RV100 QY"
    Driver        "ati"
    BusID        "PCI:1:4:0"
    Option        "Monitor-VGA-0" "Left Monitor"
    Option        "Monitor-VGA-0" "Right Monitor"
EndSection


Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "Left Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "Right Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS"
    Option        "Right Of" "Left Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Default Screen"
    Device        "Radeon RV100 QY"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth    24
        Virtual    3840 1200
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option    "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section    "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen        "Default Screen"
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
    InputDevice    "COnfiguredMouse"
EndSection