[clue] Fwd: need Xorg advice (unable to multi-monitor)

[Mike Bean]

Whew, small panic moment.  It quit booting, so I restored to a live CD and
restored the old xorg.conf file.  Seems OK now, but multi monitor still
doing weird stuff, so advice is still well appreciated  [?]

In the meantime, I think I'm going to run a backup - just in case.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:01 PM
Subject: need Xorg advice (unable to multi-monitor)
To: CLUE talk <clue-talk at cluedenver.org>


Hi guys,

I've been kinda breaking my brain on this one for a while, think maybe it's
time I admit I'm in over my head and ask for help.  My computer/laptop is
running Mint11 "Katya".
For the most part, it's fine.  Tried to plug a multi-monitor, 2nd monitor
in.

It detects the monitor, and runs with clone image/same image on both
monitors, but when I try to separate the monitors, I get an error saying
basically that the specified geometry is greater then the available space.
I've been trying to figure this out on my own,  here's the deal:

1) I burned a live CD, and booted to it, and I can run multi-monitor just
fine (separate images on both monitors)
2) I go to one of the virtual terminals, stop gdm, and run X-configure, and
I get an error that says "number of created screens does not match number of
detected devices"

When I began this whole process my xorg.conf was surprisingly sparse, it
just had one monitor in it, but everything seemed OK, so I didn't think too
much about it.

1) I did some reading and found some people on the web with driver issues
and the like, the vesa driver for example, and running aticonfigure
--initial helped.
They would remove the vesa driver completely, rerun aticonfigure, and
restart X.

I'm kind of the careful type, so I haven't nuked the vesa driver completely,
and I've been just renaming my old xorg files to xorg.old, but similar
measures so far haven't helped.
(I'm currently typing this while booted from a live CD)

So that's more or less where I'm at.   Kind of stumped, wanted to ask
around, any advice is welcome.

Bean
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