[SGVLUG] strange dual head problem

[Claude Felizardo]

That was one of the last things i tried adding.  Didn't have an effect
though i did spell DRI with lowercase.

A few other things people have suggested are to see what user is
running the X server (if it's root, then its not a permission problem)
otherwise look at the stuff in /dev/ and see if anything looks
suspicious.  Another thing to look at is permissions for kde files. 
Maybe while running as root it created a file only it can read?  Oh, i
did verify that i can read /etc/X11/xorg.conf though I can not do a
directory of /etc/X11.

Also looked at /var/log/messages, no obvious messages there either.

I'll try this tomorrow.
thanks.



On 6/22/05, Michael Proctor-Smith <mproctor at surfcity.net> wrote:
> Haven't seen the problem but the only thing I can think of is:
> 
> 
> Section "DRI"
>         Group        0
>         Mode         0666
> EndSection
> 
> Do you have anything like the above in your xorg.conf file.
> 
> On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 20:00 -0700, Claude Felizardo wrote:
> > I'm trying to get dual head (or rather big desktop) working using a
> > Radeon x300.  I've got two LCD panels connected to the DVI splitter.
> > Works fine under WinXP but of course I want to use Linux.    I
> > installed Mandriva (still getting used to that name) LE 2005
> > (formerly
> > known as Mandrake 10.2) MINI but it only brought up the primary
> > display.  Took some fiddling with the xorg.conf file but i finally
> > got
> > both monitors to work IFF I log in as root.  If I log in as a regular
> > user, only the primary display comes up.   It looks like I can move
> > the cursor past the right edge but the display remains blank.
> > Nothing
> > obvious in the logs.  Checked the ATI website and did some google
> > searches but can't find anything that helps.  It sounds like a
> > permission problem.  Oh, I did install Mandrake at the "higher"
> > security level.
> >
> > Other info.  I'm using X.org 6.8.2
> >
> > anyone see this before?
> >
> > claude
> >
> 
>