Dual head display with RedHat 9.0?

From: Patrick Flaherty (Patrick_member_at_newsguy.com)
Date: 09/07/03 

Date: 7 Sep 2003 14:37:51 -0700

Hi,

New to Linux. How does one configure RedHat 9.0 for a dual-hdr display? And to
complicate matters, I'm building RedHat inside a VirtualPC partition on a
Windows machine.

I've installed twice now (first on my Windows Server 2003 mch at work and then
next on my Windows 2000 Pro machine at home). And have gotten the same result
each time. The install goes well - no apparent problems. Then VirtualPC
reboots its 'PC'. Boots up but the login screen is garbage. Very long and thin
(stretching horizontally across the dual monitors [I have dual monitors both at
home and at work]); a few fuzzy, indistinct colored 'objects' on the screen,
none of which respond to mouse clicks.

With the first install I basically punted on video card and monitor
characteristics. The video card came up as S3 Trio 64 which confused me since
that machine actually had a NVidia dual-hdr card. However after the [failed]
install, I checked the VirtualPC documentation and it does indeed emulate an S3
Trio. And I think I left monitor unspecified in some fashion (probably not a
good idea).

With my second install (at home) I paid more attention to these things. Left
the video card at S3 Trio as it should have believe (I believe). However when
it came to monitor, found NEC LCD1810X, of which I have two at home, in the list
and checked this.

Didn't help. Got exactly the same trashed-out login display as with my first
install.

Didn't notice anything (maybe I should have looked around more) about dual
monitors. But now I'm installing for a third time and will look more carefully
for this. And have checked the documentation (by loading shrike-docs-US.iso
into DAEMON Tools - a software ISO image mounter). Looked through this a good
bit but didn't find anything that addressed my particular problem.

Oh and one other idea. If one does arrive at a trashed-out and unusable login
screen, after having done the GUI install, is there a keystroke combination of
something, that will drop me back into Virtual Console mode (line-oriented
mode)? Or (at a deeper level) is there an intermediate step during the boot
process where one can force a stop and tell the OS to boot up into a
line-oriented prompt? (Seems tedious that one would have to rebuild the entire
OS to get a line-oriented interface).

  pat

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