Re: Dual DVI success

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, William D. Hamblen wrote:

>I promised I would write back with the results of my attempt to assemble a
>RHEL3 system with two flat panels, both using DVI connections.  So here it
>is.
>
>The short version: two Radeon 7000s (one AGP, one PCI), two Dell 1703FP
>1280x1024 flat panels.  Works great out of the box if you disable DRI in
>XF86Config.  No artifacts, stable image, uniform color across both 
>displays.  Very nice.
>
>I ended up ordering a prebuilt system from a vendor we've used fairly
>often.  It came with two 64MB Powercolor Radeon 7000 Multi-Display Edition
>video cards (Evil Wizard): one AGP and one PCI.  The vendor picked the
>specific card - all I cared about is that they were Radeon 7000s with DVI
>(because they are cheap and have a PCI version).  These cards also have a
>VGA connector and TV Out.  lspci calls them
>
>01:07.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY 
>[Radeon 7000/VE]
>02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY 
>[Radeon 7000/VE]
>
>I added two Dell 1703FP flat panels.  These have DVI connectors and a
>native resolution of 1280x1024.
>
>I did the Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 3.0 installation myself.  There was
>only one problem.  After the installation finished, the system rebooted
>and the primary screen (only one is setup by the installer) went blank as
>X started.  The system appeared to be completely hung.  Nothing on any of