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Lance Albertson posted <1097902422.1755.6.camel@mirage>, excerpted below, |
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on Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:53:42 -0500: |
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> I know I'm a little late in responding to this thread, but I just found |
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> out that 6.8.0-r1 breaks xinerama/dual+ display support for anyone running |
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> the Radeon chipset. |
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> I'm curious, are there any Radeon users out there running Xinerama that |
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> aren't having problems with this version? |
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I'm running it here, with a Radeon 9200SE AGP dual output card, no |
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problems. That's using the libreware drivers, and dual monitors, both |
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running 2048x1536, oriented one above the other for a 2048x3072 virtual |
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desktop. |
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Further, I've run both the standard dual adaptor/monitor/screen xorg.conf |
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(my default setup), and tried the new "MergedFB" mode as well. I ended up |
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going back to standard Xinerama mode however, because MergedFB doesn't |
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handle a larger than 2048x2048 in 3D accelerated mode anyway, and while it |
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does handle a large enough 2D mode, the inflexibility of having a single |
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unified resolution list as opposed to being able to handle each screen |
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resolution separately, coupled with not being able to do 3D anyway due to |
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my chosen resolutions, meant the standard Xinerama mode was the better |
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solution for me. |
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OTOH, I haven't recently tried running with two separate video cards |
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entirely. I had tried back with kernel 2.4/XFree, and couldn't get that |
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to work, as it'd never seem to initialize the second card correctly, altho |
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I know what it's like working, as I had it working with an NVidia dual |
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output card and their proprietaryware drivers, using an old 4MB S3 Virge |
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PCI as the second card driving the third monitor. Just couldn't get the |
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libreware Radeon drivers to do it, tho. Anyway, maybe two physical cards |
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was working with kernel 2.6 and xorg, and isn't now, as I haven't tried |
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two physical cards, only two outputs on the same card, which as I said, |
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works, here. |
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It also may be that I'm running AMD64 and yes it does work on that, but |
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maybe it doesn't on legacy 32-bit x86, or whatever other arch you may be |
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using. (Of course, another variable is that I'm running gcc-3.4, which is |
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stable on amd64. Maybe it works with gcc-3.4, but not with 3.3 or |
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whatever. And.. yes I DID verify I'm running xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1, so we're |
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talking about the same thing there.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little |
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temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- |
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Benjamin Franklin |
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