hmmm, it seems the new ddc code has horked up dualhead for some radeon cards. I'll give dualhead a try with cvs when I get home tonight. My mergedfb code seems to work ok with cvs, but I haven't tried the old dualhead codepath yet on my m6. Alex --- alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > 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 __________________________________ 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
