Hardware: ATI Radeon x1300, ViewSonic LCD monitors(In fact, It can be any LCD);
Software: Fedora 6
The most important is to update ATI Driver for Fedora. Fedora 6 supports ATI Radeon x1300 by default. But it does not support two monitors(or the two monitors look like a mirror of each other).
Install ATI driver for fedora(logon as root)
rpm
-Uhv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
yum install
kmod-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
yum update kmod-fglrx
xorg-x11-drv-fglrx
fglrx?
Yes. It is for ATI Radeon.
Make
a copy of /etc/X11/xorg.conf, such as cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.save, in
case of any exception.
Open
a terminal:
#
export PATH=/opt/ati/bin:$PATH
/opt/ati/bin/aticonfig --initial --input=/etc/X11/xorg.conf
aticonfig --initial=dual-head --screen-layout=right
aticonfig --dtop=horizontal --overlay-on=1
aticonfig --resolution=0,2048x768,1024x768
edit
/etc/X11/xorg.conf. In my case its content is below.
#
Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section
"ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section
"Files"
EndSection
Section
"Module"
EndSection
Section
"InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section
"Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section
"Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[1]"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section
"Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "DesktopSetup" "horizontal"
Option "OverlayOnCRTC2" "1"
EndSection
Section
"Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[1]"
Driver "fglrx"
EndSection
Section
"Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "2560x1024" "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section
"Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[1]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[1]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[1]"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Xinerama" "on"
Option "Clone" "off"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection
In
a termainl, input “init 3” to close the X window and turn to the
Text Mode.
IN
the Text Mode, logon as root. Input “init 5” to restart X
window. As we can see, It works!
If
any exception occurs and Fedora can not start, please restore
/etc/X11/xorg.conf with the backup copy.