[64studio-devel] Dual-Monitor support in 64-Studio? SUCCESS (Matrox Mill. G550-DVI)

[Quentin Harley]

R.Wolff wrote:
> Hi Jason,
> just wanted to let you ( and the list) know that I finally managed to 
> get my two
> monitors to play nicely with 64-Studio. Since I didn't feel too 
> comfortable after 2 or 3
> times failing, I just put the project aside a few days to learn a little 
> more about X
> and such stuff.  Finally I made a backup of my current installation, 
> erased it and
> installed Kubuntu (the liveCD wouldn't make use of the two screens and 
> there's no means of loggin'
> out and back in to restart X after configuring Xorg.conf, since there's 
> no pwd provided)
> I then copied the xorg.conf file from the installation, erased Kubuntu, 
> restored my previous backup
> image and replaced xorg.conf with the one from Ubuntu. Phew, what an 
> operation!!!
>
> Btw, it looks quite a bit different from the file you've sent me.
> If it can be of use to anybody else, here it is:
>
> # /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
>   

Hey, nice work.

We'll each have to adjust it to fit our own setups, but it is so much 
nicer to work from a template!

Quentin