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Fedora 10 Dual Head Graphics Card

This post details how to install and configure two monitors on a single EVGA GeForce 9500 GT graphics (video) card under Fedora 10. When I was researching dual head graphics cards for use with Fedora, I came across a lot of forum and blog entries on the subject but most of them contained obsolete or incorrect information – especially about TwinView, Xinerama and the X Window System configuration file. Hopefully this post will provide readers with some useful up-to-date information on the subject. This particular graphics card (EVGA P/N 01G-P3-N959-TR) was of interest to me for a number of reasons

Bootable DVD/CDROM

Have you ever wanted to determine whether a DVD or CDROM is a bootable CDROM or DVD from within a shell script?  If you use GNU/Linux you could parse the output from the isoinfo utility which is part of the CDRecord tools suite. What if the isoinfo utility is not available on your operating system?  In this case you have to resort to rolling you own compiled langauge utility or shell script.  To do this you need to understand where to find the specific bytes on a CDROM/DVD which indicate whether it is a bootable CDROM/DVD or not.  The relevant