[XFree86] ATI Radeon VE (7000) config

["Martin Emms" <syntonic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Anyone managed to make the dual display feature work reliably on any ATI card ? I need help with my XF86Config file.

 

I have 2 screens linked to a Radeon VE (7000) card in the AGP slot, I am running Redhat 9 with XFree86-4.3.

 

The best I have managed is to get X running on both screens at once in "clone mode" (both screen showing the same thing). However the second screen goes off as soon as the mouse crosses a window (eg. xterm). To get this to work I had to initialise the macine to runlevel 3 then start X from the command line with "xinit".

 

Trying to run KDE on runlevel 5, the second screen goes off as soon as X is initialised.

 

This is the XF86Config file I was using, there are suggestions from a lot of different sources in here (man pages, readme files and suggestions on forums) but still no joy.

 

# XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86

 

Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier     "Default Layout"
  Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0

  Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
  InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
  InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice    "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection

 

Section "Files"

  RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
  FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

 

Section "Module"
  Load  "dbe"
  Load  "extmod"
  Load  "fbdevhw"
  Load  "glx"
  Load  "record"
  Load  "freetype"
  Load  "type1"
# Load  "dri"
EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

  Identifier  "Keyboard0"
  Driver      "keyboard"
  Option     "XkbRules" "xfree86"
  Option     "XkbModel" "pc105"
  Option     "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier  "Mouse0"
  Driver      "mouse"
  Option     "Protocol" "PS/2"
  Option     "Device" "/dev/psaux"
  Option     "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
  Option     "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

  Identifier  "DevInputMice"
  Driver      "mouse"
  Option     "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
  Option     "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option     "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
  Option     "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

 

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier   "Monitor0"
  VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
  ModelName    "AOC Spectrum"
  DisplaySize  320 240
  HorizSync    30.0 - 95.0
  VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
  Option     "dpms"
EndSection

 

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier   "Monitor1"
  VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
  ModelName    "Daytek DT-1770"
  DisplaySize  320 240
  HorizSync    30.0 - 70.0
  VertRefresh  50.0 - 150.0
  Option     "dpms"
EndSection

 

Section "Device"
  Identifier  "Videocard0"
  Driver      "radeon"
  VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
  BoardName   "ATI Radeon VE"
# VideoRam    65536
  BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
  Option      "CloneDisplay" "2"
EndSection

 

Section "Screen"
  Identifier "Screen0"
  Device     "Videocard0"
  Monitor    "Monitor0"
  DefaultDepth     16
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth     16
    Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
EndSection

 

Section "Screen"
  Identifier "Screen1"
  Device     "Videocard0"
  Monitor    "Monitor1"
  DefaultDepth     16
  SubSection "Display"
    Depth     16
    Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
  EndSubSection
EndSection

 

# Section "DRI"
# Group        0
# Mode         0666
# EndSection