ATI Cards with VGA and DVI Ports

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Mon Aug 4 01:00:51 PDT 2008


On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Deepak Bhatia <deepak.bhatia at nechclst.in> wrote:
> Hi,
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> We are trying to do multimonitor/dual head using the ATI Cards which has the
> VGA Port and DVI port.
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> We are told that we can connect DVI to VGA connector to get VGA output on
> the DVI connector.
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> My Question: Can we get dual head using this way ? Do the DVI output has any
> affect when we write the xorg.conf file ?

The preferred method is to use xrandr, however, older zaphod
configurations should work as well.

Alex


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