On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 19:45, noneedforemail@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > I have a radeon 7000 dual head attached to two 15" LCD's. I want to use > them both in "portrait" mode (randr). When using xinerama, if I try to run > xrandr, I get the error message "extension 'randr' missing on display > ':0.0'." Any clue how to get this working? Keep in mind that I have a > radeon, so I'm not even sure if the drivers support randr. Thanks. > > --Andrew Schwartz Andrew, how's the image quality on your two LCDs? I'm driving two Dell E171FP panels from a single Radeon 7500 card. The monitors are analog and I've got a DVI->VGA adaptor on one of the ports. I ask because -- despite the current brokenness of always-on clone mode -- the image quality has always been poor, even under XF 4.2. In a nutshell, the DVI->VGA panel is fuzzy and the VGA panel has tons of ghost lines and other image instabilities. Not to mention positioning problems on both heads. I know this is not a panel h/w problem because I can drive the same monitors from a Radeon 8500 Mac card on my OSX box and they look wonderful. I'm still suspecting the Radeon driver under XFree86. On a tangent: the various problems I'm having with the Radeon h/w under XFree86 are making my Linux desktop experience too depressing. Can anyone recommend a good dual-head card that is well supported by XFree86 4.3, that can drive two VGA flat panels, and that costs no more than about $150? I don't care about gaming, i just need a good s/w development platform (i.e. look real nice for text). Cheers, -Barry _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
