At this point I've gone full circle, or maybe it's a semi-circle...a little background... I was using FC3 on my HP nx9110 laptop for quite a while. I always had some minor nuisances, but stuff I could live with. Then I did an adp-get dist-upgrade and totally blew up xorg where my machine was almost unusable. After fighting it for a while, I decided to try ubuntu. Ubuntu was pretty good and I liked some things, but I'm a redhat/fedora person, so back to FC. I installed FC4 which went smoothly. I'm still left with the same old problem I had before, the video on my Radeon 9100 IGP. Default install is working fine on the laptop's internal display @1280x800. I tried using the built config under Desktop/System Settings/Display to enable the second monitor, but as before, I've had no luck getting that to work. Time to try the Radeon drivers. I downloaded and installed ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.run. It installed fine and glxgears runs. I ran the fglrxconfig, but then I can't start X. The conf file that is created is totally hosed, seemingly ending in the middle. It's missing an EndSection and missing a Screen section, so I'm not sure how hosed it is. I tried both a Single display and their second option of being able to switch between internal and external display. Doesn't seem like I'm asking that much out of linux. All I want is to be able to use my internal laptop display at 1280x800 and use my external LCD panel at 1280x1024. I'm not talking about spanning or anything. Both displaying the same thing, so I can close my laptop when I'm at my desk and use the external. If I open the laptop and walk away with it I want to use the internal. So, is it possible to do this? (I know this is 'yes') Is anyone willing to help me with a working xorg.conf? (I'm hoping this is 'yes') I'd be happy to post whatever information that would be helpful. <whine> I'm tired of fighting this battle. Thanks, James
