Is there any driver for Radeon 9600XT fo XWindows? When I try to set up radeon driver in X configuration it freezes. Autodetect detects vesa driver. Thank you for your help. Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Deucher" <agd5f@xxxxxxxxx> To: <xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 3:29 PM Subject: Radeon 9200: DRI on one head and 2d on second head ? > ---------------------------------- > > > >Hello > > > >I'm trying to setup an ATI Redeon 9200 card for a multimedia PC. > > > >The goal is to be able to connect a video projector on the DVI head > >(screen 1) and the monitor on the main head (screen 0). And my kid > >would be rather disapointed if he can no longer play with gltron on > >the main screen, so I need a working DRI on the main head. > > > >With Xfree 4.3.0, I am able to setup DRI on one head, *or* set up a > >dual head (2 screens setup). > > > >But in the latter case, the DRI is disabled: Radeon driver does not > >support DRI with dual head setup even if the NoAccel option is set in > >the second Device. > > > >IS this statement correct or did I miss something ? > > In the xfree86 4.3/4.4 radeon driver you can't mix DRI and dualhead. > It may work without xinerama, depends what you are doing. > > > > >So I was considering to set up a single head configuration for X on > >the main head and set up a frame buffer on the second head. > > > >Thus I could use directly the -vo fbdev and display the video directly > >on the second head without going through X. > > > >Is that possible ? (OK, I'm drifting off-topic) > > > >Does anyone have a pointer and how to set up a radeon frame buffer on > >the second head ? > > AFAIK, the radeonfb kernel driver does not support multiple heads yet. > > > > >Thanks for any help. > > It sounds like what you may want is my radeon driver with mergedfb > support. It uses each crtc as a viewport into a single shared > framebuffer so the DRI works on both heads: > http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/MergedFB > > Alex > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Search - Find what you're looking for faster > http://search.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
