Re: Three monitors on FC5



Tore Skogly wrote:
I have spent several hours trying to get a three monitor setup to run on a
workstation running Fedora Core 5 with all the latest updates.
I am using one dual head ATI FireGL V3100 PCIExpress and one Matrox G450 PCI
video card.
I have installed the video driver version 8.25.18 from ATI, and running two
monitors connected to the ATI card works perfectly.

The problem is to get the Matrox G450 card to provide output to the third
monitor connected. All monitors are 19" LCDs running at 1280x1024.

I know I have to configure xorg.conf manually, but I have not been able to
come up with a working configuration yet. Is there anyone out there that can provide som assistance? Unfortunately I'm
not able to provide the current xorg.conf file.

Post a link to your xorg.conf, I think it would be easier for people to point out what you need to do.

In theory it don't differ from setting up three monitors from two monitors, most of the magic lies in "ServerLayout".


//Aho
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