Dual monitor no longer works with new card

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Date: 09/22/05 

Date: 22 Sep 2005 11:17:52 -0700

This may be completely unrelated to Linux, and is soley a PC issue...I
don't know. I'm hoping to maybe get some direction of where to go.

I've a Dell Dimension (yeah I know, it's what I have to work with) that
I had been using dual monitor. Card/screen 0 was the onboard video and
card/screen 1 is a seperate PCI card.
Fedora Core 3, by the way.

A power surge has blown the onboard video, and I've put in an AGP video
card.
The Xorg setup has detected the new card, and I can run Xwindows on
that new card hust fine, but when I try to set up dual head, the second
screen never comes up.

I've even tried using the old xorg.conf from back when it worked fine,
and replacing the old onboard card info with the new one. Again, the
display works fine on the new card, but it never comes up on the PCI.

So in the Dell BIOS, it used to be set to default display being
onboard, of course. Now my choices are "auto" and "AGP". I've had it on
"AGP" during all this troubleshooting, so I tried "Auto."
With that, the PC boots up with the PCI card as the main display, but
of course XWindows won't load on it. I went into xorg.conf and swapped
the 0 and 1 demarkaters (eg: screen0 becomes screen1, etc.) But, no
change.

So, what am I missing? Any ideas where I should go from here...if it's
even possible?
Thanks for any help!
Liam

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