[ale] made the jump to linux on home machine

jrtroberts jrtroberts at gmail.com
Sun Jun 20 16:57:48 EDT 2010


Well I finally made the jump to linux on my laptop.
I guess it is about time.  I did start a LUG at my college and all, so I 
might as well practice what I preach, eh.  *smirk*

I am having an issue though with my monitors.  I noticed that with 
Nvidia graphics cards I can easily setup a separate xserver for each 
monitor or do xinerama if I want.  But, my laptop is an old ATI radeon 
mobility 7500

lspci http://pastebin.com/LM6MHff0

ddcprobe http://pastebin.com/YJqHDkGK

I found a site where someone used a similar type card to get xinerama to 
work and this might work for dual xservers without xinerama, but I don't 
understand it.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-105588-highlight-ati+radeon+mobility+7500.html

So what should I do for my xorg.conf to get the separate xserver on each 
monitor?

my current xorg.conf.failsafe file http://pastebin.com/x5QyTWF3

hope my request makes sense. Thanks.

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