Dual monitors - right one doesn't work right away
pete wright
nomadlogic at gmail.com
Fri May 20 22:27:32 PDT 2005
On 5/20/05, Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu> wrote:
> I just installed 5.4 RELEASE, cvsup'd the ports and portupgraded everything
> to current. I'm using one ATI Radeon X300 card and two monitors with
> Xinerama. When I first login, only the left screen displays its half of
> the desktop. (I'm using gdm and gnome, but xdm with twm does the exact
> same thing.)
>
> After a while (30 minutes or more) the right monitor will begin displaying
> its half of the desktop.
>
> I've been hunting through the logs and googling trying to figure out what
> the cause is, but so far I'm stumped.
>
> This is a copy of the most recent display log (but they all look about the
> same.)
>
I'd post a copy of your xorg.conf file. The info bellow states that
it can not detect the monitor, but with out the config we can't tell
if it's a problem with your setup or a hardware issue.
-pete
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