How to Dual-Head? [Was: xrandr only shows one video card]

["Kent West" <westk@acu.edu>]

On 5/22/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 08:17:22PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> > I don't really understand all the geek-speak from what I've been able
> > to find, but it appears to me that xinerama has been deprecated in
> > favor of xrandr. Only thing is, I can't figure out how to get xrandr
> > ("X Rotate and Resize" seems to be the meaning of this name) working.
> > >From what I've been able to ascertain, running the command "xrandr"
> > should list all the video devices connected, but when I run it, all I
> > see is the Intel device:
>
> my reading of the manpage tells me that it shows you the X Screens as
> opposed to the monitors. And it looks like you can set which "outputs"
> to manipulate.

Thanks for the response.

So obviously, I'm clueless about how to get dual-head working now that
xinerama appears to be unusable (with the "i810/intel" driver update
which breaks it). Anyone have any pointers to documentation that might
get my dual-head working again?

Thanks!

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Kent West
Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com