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DrMikeDuke

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-05-12

Posts: 79

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ATI Dualscreen woes...

Hi all,

Recently installed Arch 64 on the missus PC.
She's very happy except she can't use her dual monitors properly.
Its been a LONG time since I've written an xorg.conf file (been spoiled by nvidia:)
Anyhow: Long story short, I've given it a try but it never starts X.

Can anyone give me the basis for an xorg.conf file with the following parameters:

ATI HD4870 using xf86-video-ati
Screen 1 Primary - 1680x1050 (I believe)
Screen 2 (Left) Secondary - 1280x1024

Thanks!

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Cyrusm

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From: Bozeman, MT

Registered: 2007-11-15

Posts: 1,053

Re: ATI Dualscreen woes...

Follow this Wiki it has everything you are looking for and then some.

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