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Getting Dual Head to Work in Fedora Core 9

Fedora Core 9 has been out for a while and I haven’t seen any decent dual monitor configurations. Of course this might have changed in the last month and a half but I doubt it. FC9 comes with the latest Xorg Server which as of this writing is 1.4.99.905. It was until very recently that many people were downgrading their Xorg version to the one included with FC8 because the ABI was so new that NVidia hadn’t released a driver yet. Also in this version of Fedora is one second X and kernel-based modesetting. The Intel driver that I use has been updated so when I decided to switch I found that my previous xorg.conf repetitively caused X to crash.

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