[olug] Dual Monitors in F16

[Kevin]

Is there a reason that Ctrl-Alt-F2 wouldn't work? F7 is traditionally
the GUI, but I think that in either Fedora 14 or 15 they changed it to
Ctrl-Alt-F1. I've got a stock install of F15 going on now so I might
be able to test it tomorrow.

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 16:54, Jay Woods <woodsjay at cox.net> wrote:
> On Friday, December 02, 2011 09:28:45 AM Obi-Wan wrote:
>> > Have been using dual head for years.  Long ago with Matrox dual cards,
>> > recent years with plain jane aftermarket nvidia cards.  Haven't thought
>> > about it for a long time since it's been plug and play for quite some
>> > time.
>> >
>> >  I too, use the proprietary drivers and stick with nvidia.
>>
>> Ditto that.  Been running it for 3+ years at my current job and for a
>> while before that at the previous job.  Both Ubuntu, and both with the
>> proprietary nVidia drivers.  Never tried it any other way because it's
>> just so easy using the nVidia GUI.
>
> I'm finding out that X can't be running when the installation is going on. Is
> there an easier way (less hazardous way) to get out of X than edit the
> starting run level? I'm not worried about working at the command line but am
> worried that I can reliably edit the starting level back to 5. Is a run level
> of 3 right for F15?
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