issue with dual screen setup

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hi all,

i got the dual screen setup but having a weird problem with saving the configuration. Heres the process i go though:

at the moment when my machine boots login appears which allows the cursor to go from one screen to the other as i want great :), but when i login it changes to the clone setup which views the same picture on both screens. >:( when i configure the ati control panel it goes to setup which works when i login which i require but as soon as i restart it goes back to the same process all over again and the ati control panel says on cloned instead of the bigscreen right and left etc which i setup before and its say it require a restart but doesnt work.

if anyone can shed some light onto this problem i will be most greatfully.

thanks

paul

2

hi again,

i have sorted the issue abit just by editing the xorg.conf and its working great but i have got it as the menu and wallpaper and programs on full screen stretched over both screens. Is it possible to have the menu and wallpaper and full screen programs on seperate screens but still maintaning the cursor from floating from one screen to the other (via editing the xorg.conf )

any help will be great

thanks paul

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Yes,

That ATI programme wants to strech across two screens.

I had to mess with the screen section and option section

From:
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout[all]”
Screen 0 “aticonfig-Screen[0]-0” 0 0
InputDevice “Keyboard[0]” “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse[1]” “CorePointer”
EndSection

To add the other screen 1600 pixels to the right:
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Layout[all]”
Screen 0 “aticonfig-Screen[0]-0” 0 0
Screen “aticonfig-Screen[0]-1” 1600 0
InputDevice “Keyboard[0]” “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice “Mouse[1]” “CorePointer”
EndSection

And turned on the Xinerama:

Section “ServerFlags”
Option “AllowMouseOpenFail”
Option “BlankTime” “0”
Option “Xinerama” “on”
EndSection