On Friday 06 May 2005 12:02 pm, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
However, after starting X with a config that SHOULDN'T work, but does work and gives a mirrored two screen image, I can then put the first config back in place, restart X and get the setup I want with my display stretched across two monitors. (Thereafter both monitors work in console mode as well, but not before).
We're pretty puzzled, because there doesn't seem to be anything being loaded/stated in the second config that isn't in the first.
It's like there is something in the first config that initialises the card correctly (or in your case the 2nd output of the card) which is missing in the 2nd config...personally I thought that card initialisation was a BIOS job but maybe you have to do it for different resolutions or something.
I had a similar thing with a soundcard a few years ago, it would only work after a cold boot if I booted Windows first and then rebooted into Linux.