On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 00:42 -0400, Chris Ruprecht wrote: > Hello, > > I did a clean installed of FC5 on my laptop. > > Under FC4 I can run dual head (meaning that I use the laptops LCD > display plus a second external LCD monitor showing different desktops at > the same time) just fine. > > Under FC5, this is broken. If I select "Individual desktops", the > external monitor just says 'No signal' and after a while, goes to sleep. Which graphics card is being used? How is it configured? Drivers? > > I asked this a few weeks ago, when I first installed FC5 (upgraded from > FC4) and I have since then installed SuSE 10, then FC4 and then FC5 > again. I don't want to run FC4 since I don't seem to get Firefox 1.5.x.x > and Thunderbird 1.5.x.x to install (it wants to install later versions > of stuff that I need for other things and fails badly). The answer I got > back then was "Yeah, it's broken, check for updates frequently." I > appreciate the answer, don't get me wrong - at least I know I'm not > going nuts - others also have this issue. But I was sort of thinking > that this should be not to difficult to fix for somebody with the right > experience. Or am I expecting too much? A. FC5 includes FF and thundebird 1.5.0.2/3. B. FC4 doesn't. C. If you -choose- to use mozilla.org's version of FF/thunderbird you are breaking compatibility with Fedora's package manager. How can you expect Fedora to fix a problem (missing libstdc++.so.5) if you bypass it and install things by hand? Gilboa
