The bug with the second head going into powersave mode was fixed just after 4.3.0 was released. I have a "fixed" binary for glibc 2.3 based installs here (redhat 9, etc.) here: http://www.botchco.com/alex/radeon/430bugfix/radeon_drv.o Just copy the file into your existing installation. make sure you back up your existing radeon_dvr.o. if you want to try mergedfb, I have glibc 2.3 based CVS binaries here: http://www.botchco.com/alex/radeon/mergedfb/cvs/cvs-2003-7-31/final/ You can also get the latest patches here: http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276 Mergedfb does not work that same as xinerama based dualhead from a configuration perspective. With mergedfb you only have a single device section in your config file with some new special options. see my sample config here: http://www.botchco.com/alex/radeon/mergedfb/cvs/final/XF86Config Alex ------------------------- On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 21:05, William Gallafent wrote: > This sounds like a bug which has been fixed in more recent versions of XFree86 > (but which is not yet in an actual release). > > If you're happy with building and installing from source, try the development > snapshot at http://the.earth.li/XFree86/develsnaps/ (use a local mirror). I > have a feeling this will work for you. I'm using a dual-head Radeon 9000 with > snapshot 4.3.99.10, which works well. > > Alternatively, I think that ready-built radeon drivers which you could drop in > on top of your 4.3.0 installation are available from some places on the net > (but I don't remember where, since I always just build from source, to get > mergedfb (which allows DRI to run on multi-head on Radeon. See: > http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276 ...)). Hey, thanks again for the pointers, two heads are better than one! I've still got some font issues to hammer out but no big deal... I do seem to be having trouble with DRI though, and what little info I find about mergedfb for radeons is over my head, likely because it is not officially released yet... I'm not sure if that is something I need manually or what... ----- (WW) RADEON(0): Direct Rendering Disabled -- Dual-head configuration is not working with D RI at present. Please use only one Device/Screen section in your XFConfig file. ----- Anyway, I've posted new logs and my config again. I'm sure there are probably some driver options or modules I am missing. http://ericspeaks.com/xf86config-3.txt http://ericspeaks.com/xfree86.0.log-3.txt http://ericspeaks.com/glxinfo-3.txt BTW, outside of the message in the logs, if I run glxgears, I get a blank, black box on one monitor, and when dragged over to the other I get the gears, but very very slow. Thanks again! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
