Re: Dual head display with RedHat 9.0?
From: Patrick Flaherty (Patrick_member_at_newsguy.com)
Date: 09/08/03
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Date: 7 Sep 2003 16:55:22 -0700
In article <bjg8ff094n@drn.newsguy.com>, Patrick Flaherty says...
>
>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
>
Ah. Third time seems to be the charm.
'Maybe' it's when I specified that the monitor was an NEC MultiSync 1810X (and
not 1810 without the X). The vertical and horizontal refresh rates are somewhat
different for the two.
And so dual-hdr may have nothing to do with it.
I did notice a question (in the series of questions _after_ the install) to the
effect:
You 'may' be able to configure such that you can boot either graphically or to a
line-oriented prompt.
This appeared in the Help bar to the left however there was nothing
corresponding to it in the options to the right. (As best I remember this
screen, it's the one where one of the two options was to specify what the
default resolution is to be).
RedHat Linux looks pretty nice, including the desktop (is this GNOME?).
Anyway, now that I have things working, I imagine I'll become familiar with all
these distinctions, etc over time.
I have the allotted memory (in VirtualPC) set to 250 MB (there's 1 GB total on
the machine). Is this enough to run RedHat Linux (with the graphical desktop)?
I'm on a Pentium III 1 GHz, and apps seem a little slow to start up (maybe
they're hitting the pagefile a lot because I've got Linux throttled to 250 MB).
However other than that, responsiveness, if anything, is pretty good.
pat
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