Second monitor not being used

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 06:29:21 PDT 2012


On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Louis Turk <lou at dayspringpublisher.com> wrote:
> Hi Peter Hutterer and/or Dave Airlie,
>
> What is wrong with the following xorg.conf file that it won't use the second
> monitor? The second monitor in fact goes into power saving mode the instant
> X starts. The graphic card is HIS Radeon HD 6450, running on latest 64 bit
> Archlinux full system upgrade. I've spent days using google to try to find
> out how to fix this problem, trying every solution suggested, but to no
> avail so far. Without Xinerama X can't load at all.


>
> PS xrandr is not working on my machine. I get: RandR extension missing

It looks like you configured your xserver wrong.  I would try and get
randr working first.  The problems you are having with zaphod mode may
have the same root cause.

Alex



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