Dual Monitor Question

[Jerry Feldman]

On 01/18/2010 10:36 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 10:06 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: 
>   
>> Matt Smith writes:
>>
>>     
>>> I am very very new to Linux and Fedora 12 is the first OS I am working 
>>> with.  Can someone explain to me in detail how to get my dual monitor 
>>> setup working?  I have searched all over the internet to no avail.  I have 
>>> a dell monitor and a samsung monitor.  I am not sure what video card i 
>>> have and i dont know how to check or find that out since i am new to 
>>> fedora.  Any help is much appreciated.
>>>       
>> To determine your video card:
>>
>> Open "System → Administration → Display", then the "Hardware" tab. This 
>> shows your video card. Additionally, the "Configure" button shows your video 
>> driver. The video card may be occasionally listed as "unknown video card", 
>> even though you obviously have a working video driver. And even if the video 
>> card is listed, it is likely to be a generic name. Run the "lspci -v" 
>> command in your terminal window. The resulting output will include your 
>> detailed video card hardware info.
>>
>>     
> I have no System->Administration->Display in my menus. What program does
> this represent?
>
>   
You can install it from the command line:
sudo yum install system-config-display

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