From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FuQOR-0004yV-TQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 08:55:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5P8plh3009098; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 08:51:47 GMT Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com (wx-out-0102.google.com [66.249.82.203]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5P8ZKKb012644 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 08:35:20 GMT Received: by wx-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id t4so713306wxc for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:35:20 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=amHCOLyEM9aX7DrcmaRATGrmSzVqTRYEJBMZF1ZYMCcUPBjdd7QF/JN/+x2z6NyTl0OpkNe4oejmW8mx2sxrnkkbY5wxr4v80AWPe/6aHvgXEfIVIhm7/1x2jCsyH2F5syCMmzfoTUpMnRM3ad8gjWX7yGlJppgY188u5oWg6Fg= Received: by 10.70.71.9 with SMTP id t9mr7018460wxa; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:35:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.118.18 with HTTP; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:35:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <358eca8f0606250135m435f0bc6tb4cb13b4daab07b8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 08:35:20 +0000 From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Twin monitor setup (Not strictly Gentoo I know) In-Reply-To: <4148457f0606221934x6c837fbcqba9367e39c236082@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <449A9A0B.40202@btopenworld.com> <4148457f0606221934x6c837fbcqba9367e39c236082@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 006454d1-41f9-45c2-9517-1874ddf9271b X-Archives-Hash: daaa2ad9c6dad4c0963c93901286d692 On 23/06/06, Troy Curtis Jr wrote: > I don't typically use the Xorg -configure option (I use vi!), but doesn't it > create a temporary xorg.conf file in root's home directory so that you can > test it? If it works then I would copy it from /root/xorg.conf (if it is > there) to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Use your favourite editor to manually enter the parameters for both screens/devices. There are good instructions in this link: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Monitors and the man page for xorg.conf is well written to giude you through. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list