On Sunday 06 February 2005 14:36, Robert L Cochran wrote: > Brian Parish wrote: > >Just loaded Core 3 and all seems fairly smooth except for setting up dual > >monitors. I have an PCI and a AGP card installed, but it looks very much > >like the AGP card is not being detected. > > > >Tried booting a live CD and it found both cards, but system-config-display > >sees only one card. Tried manually setting up xorg.conf using the bus ID > >detected using the live CD, but of course this is ignored because the card > >doesn't exist as far as the current system is concerned. > > > >Is there a utility I can use to scan the bus and attempt to force > > recognition of the second card? Any suggestions welcome. > > > >TIA > >Brian > > The Applications --> System Settings --> Display will launch a "Display > Settings" applet that has a "Dual Head" tab that will let you set up a > second video card. I've never done this myself in Linux. I use 2 > monitors at my office under Windows XP, it greatly improves my > productivity. > > Bob Cochran Hi Bob, What you are referring to is another way of running system-config-display. As noted, this only sees one card, so is not much use for setting up two. thanks anyway Brian
