Anaconda errored out missing a python module, leaving me to do yet another yum upgrade. I like the new yum –releasever option, allowing you to make yum believe it should take updates from say Fedora 14, without having to install the release package from another distro. Once some offending packages were removed, a few rounds of yum upgrade run, I rebooted without much issue and was pleasantly surprised to find that all four of my screens lit up with my old xorg.conf.

After initially getting four screens running after my upgrade to Fedora 13, I ultimately ran with only two screens off of my central dual-head card. At the time, Nouveau and Xorg could not handle multiple cards together, and Nvidia and Xorg eventually could after updates, but I reached a point where blacklisting Nouveau (a requirement for Nvidia success) would cause my system to boot with no graphics at all. Cool. Well, now it just worked, with a very basic traditional xorg.conf consisting of three device stanzas (each listing BusID), three basic screen stanzas, and a basic serverlayout stanza arranging the screens.

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Fritzhardy Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	Screen      1  "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
	Screen      2  "Screen2" RightOf "Screen0"
	#Option         "Xinerama" "on"
	#Option         "Clone" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option         "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
	Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier     "Videocard0"
	Driver         "nouveau"
	BoardName      "NV44A [GeForce 6200]"
	BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
	Option	    "TwinView" "True"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier     "Videocard1"
	Driver         "nouveau"
	BoardName      "NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
	BusID          "PCI:5:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier     "Videocard2"
	Driver         "nouveau"
	BoardName      "NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
	BusID          "PCI:5:1:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier     "Screen0"
	Device         "VideoCard0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier     "Screen1"
	Device         "VideoCard1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier     "Screen2"
	Device         "VideoCard2"
EndSection

Just like the old days, and it works!