I retrieved the latest version from Rawhide, and it gave me a mirrored screen, as opposed to a single desktop. I applied the file described below to XFree, and it works fine. I have two screens as one desktop functioning correctly. Alex Turner NetEconomist P.S. My system is as follows: Radeon 9000Pro 128MB version Tyan Thunder K7X S2469UGN Mobo Twin AMD MP2000s Soundblaster Live! Sound card. 30Gig Maxtor IDE drive (new model with FDBs) 2x36 gig 10k Seagate Cheatah SCSI Drives. On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 11:21:23AM -0700, Alex Deucher wrote: > try this binary: > http://www.botchco.com/alex/radeon/430bugfix/radeon_drv.o > > Alex > > --- Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 10:40, Alex Deucher wrote: > > > Barry is your card a Dell OEM card or did you purchase it? > > > > It was purchased after market. It's a true blue (er, red :) ATI > > Radeon > > 7500 PCI card, i.e. built-by ATI not powered-by ATI if I understand > > the > > terminology correctly. > > > > > I reason I > > > ask is that there were some dell specific fixes in the old xfree > > code > > > that went a way with the new DDC code that went into CVS. perhaps > > some > > > of them are still needed. if dualhead worked for you in 4.3.0 with > > the > > > excpetion of the screen turning off bug, then that may be the > > problem. > > > > It did. With the RH9 isos rpms, I definitely had Xinerama dual-head > > working, except that the secondary screen would blank when you moused > > over to it. Maybe the fixes are necessary even for stock ATI cards? > > > > > BTW, that bug is a one liner fix (one number actually). you could > > > revert to the stock 4.3.0 (that worked) code/rpms and change the > > one > > > line to fix the bug. I can probably even build you a fixed binary. > > > > Alex, I'm your willing guinea pig. If you could build me a fixed > > binary > > (of the X server?), I'd happily install it and let you know. Feel > > free > > to contact me off list. > > > > Note that this is my home machine so I usually won't get to fiddle > > with > > it until off hours. > > > > Thanks, > > -Barry > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > xfree86-list mailing list > > xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list > > IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > http://search.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > xfree86-list mailing list > xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list > IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
