Re: [CentOS] Help with multi-monitor Xorg stuff

2018-09-24 Thread Richard G
I spoke too soon with this. I can't get it to work properly with a hand-crafted xorg.conf file. As Gnome seems to automatically detect all the monitors OK, can anyone recommend a window manager I can use with CentOS 7 that will allow me to start independent full-screen kiosk browser sessions from a

Re: [CentOS] Help with multi-monitor Xorg stuff

2018-09-19 Thread Richard G
Cracked this. The solution was that I needed to specify the correct driver ("radeon") in the xorg conf file to use the open source driver, e.g. Section "Device" Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" Driver "radeon" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection All the other bits from the conf file

[CentOS] Help with multi-monitor Xorg stuff

2018-09-19 Thread Richard G
I have an unusual use case. I wonder if anyone can help. We use a PC with 8 HDMI outputs for powering a video wall in an operations centre. We use two Matrox video cards, each with 4 outputs. "lspci" reports these cards as" [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde PRO [FirePro W600]". On an older version of CentOS