Re: Dual Monitor Question

2010-01-22 Thread Matt Smith
Done, that worked on my reboot. One question though when I tried to open the file through the terminal while in root I got a Gconf error and ihad to do it from the gui, not a huge deal, I was just curious, everything works now. On 1/21/10, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Thursday 21 January 2010 0

Re: Dual Monitor Question

2010-01-21 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Thursday 21 January 2010 03:26:31 Matt Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 January 2010 01:26:06 Matt Smith wrote: > > This is also the file you need to edit in order to activate the radeon > > driver > > and get a dual-monitor system (hope

Re: Dual Monitor Question

2010-01-20 Thread Matt Smith
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Wednesday 20 January 2010 01:26:06 Matt Smith wrote: > > i will definitely check out the guidlines, sorry for that. I read about > > 100 pages in a linux book and can now at least navigate the file system. > > i attached the Xorg.0.l

Re: Dual Monitor Question

2010-01-19 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 01:26:06 Matt Smith wrote: > i will definitely check out the guidlines, sorry for that. I read about > 100 pages in a linux book and can now at least navigate the file system. > i attached the Xorg.0.log file. Thanks again for the help. Ok, the log was very inform

Re: Dual Monitor Question

2010-01-18 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 00:15:43 Matt Smith wrote: > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon > X300 (PCIE)] Ok, as far as I know, this card should be supported by the open-source radeon driver. The other choice would be the ATI closed-source fglrx (or Catalys

Re: Dual Monitor Question

2010-01-18 Thread Matt Smith
Thanks for the help. I am making a concerted effort to do everything in the terminal and just purchased books to learn in depth. Here is my video card type. 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] You have mail in /var/spool/mail/root Result of se

Re: Dual Monitor Question

2010-01-18 Thread Marko Vojinovic
Matt, first of all, welcome to the Linux community! :-) On Monday 18 January 2010 17:52:56 Matt Smith wrote: > this is the message i get when trying to run system-config-display after > installing it It is a good idea not to rely on GUI tools, especially when troubleshooting something. This i

Re: Dual Monitor Question

2010-01-18 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 01/18/2010 10:36 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 10:06 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > >> Matt Smith writes: > >> > >> > >>> I am very very new to Linux and Fedora 12 is the first OS I am working > >>> wi

Re: Dual Monitor Question

2010-01-18 Thread Matt Smith
this is the message i get when trying to run system-config-display after installing it File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 378, in dialog = xConfigDialog.XConfigDialog(hardware_state, xconfig, videocard.VideoCardInfo()) File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog

Re: Dual Monitor Question

2010-01-18 Thread Matt Smith
I installed system config display from the terminal. Now I have a "display" icon in the administration menu however when I click on it I get a message that says " a crash in package system-config-display has been detected" Thoughts? On 1/18/10, François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESS

Re: Dual Monitor Question

2010-01-18 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 18/01/2010 18:07, Matt Smith a écrit : > When typing "system-config-display" I get command not found yum install system-config-display After that, you get it "graphically" in System>Admin - -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique U

Re: Dual Monitor Question

2010-01-18 Thread Matt Smith
When typing "system-config-display" I get command not found On 1/18/10, François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 18/01/2010 16:45, Matt Smith a écrit : >> Thx >> >> But I don't have a hardware tab after I click display just this >> monitor tab that says "unkn

Re: Dual Monitor Question

2010-01-18 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 18/01/2010 16:45, Matt Smith a écrit : > Thx > > But I don't have a hardware tab after I click display just this > monitor tab that says "unknown" with a pic of a monitor and also it > says "rotation not supported", I click the detect monitors tab

Re: Dual Monitor Question

2010-01-18 Thread Matt Smith
Thx But I don't have a hardware tab after I click display just this monitor tab that says "unknown" with a pic of a monitor and also it says "rotation not supported", I click the detect monitors tab and nothing happens Thanks again Matt On 1/18/10, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Matt Smith writes: >

Re: Dual Monitor Question

2010-01-18 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/18/2010 10:36 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 10:06 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > >> Matt Smith writes: >> >> >>> I am very very new to Linux and Fedora 12 is the first OS I am working >>> with. Can someone explain to me in detail how to get my dual monitor >>>

Re: Dual Monitor Question

2010-01-18 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 10:06 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Matt Smith writes: > > > I am very very new to Linux and Fedora 12 is the first OS I am working > > with. Can someone explain to me in detail how to get my dual monitor > > setup working? I have searched all over the internet to no a

Re: Dual Monitor Question

2010-01-18 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Matt Smith writes: I am very very new to Linux and Fedora 12 is the first OS I am working with.  Can someone explain to me in detail how to get my dual monitor setup working?  I have searched all over the internet to no avail.  I have a dell monitor and a samsung monitor.  I am not sure what v

Re: Dual Monitor Question

2010-01-18 Thread Waleed Harbi
*Use terminal and run this command show video card vendor: lspci | grep -i vga This command to configure dual: system-config-display Make sure you install ** video card driver.* --- Best Wishes, Waleed Harbi --- Try not to become a man of suc

Dual Monitor Question

2010-01-18 Thread Matt Smith
I am very very new to Linux and Fedora 12 is the first OS I am working with. Can someone explain to me in detail how to get my dual monitor setup working? I have searched all over the internet to no avail. I have a dell monitor and a samsung monitor. I am not sure what video card i have and i d