Hmmm. As I said I compiled a XFree86 4.4 version from source... That's not old.. I will look into the DRI version of the driver though since it seems to have different parameters at least... Frits On Wednesday 14 April 2004 17:50, Alex Deucher wrote: > your version of xfree86 is way too old. please try with a newer > version. there were quite a few bugs in the pre-4.3 version. you may > need the "monitorlayout" option which wasn't added until after 4.3 was > released. Also, as was poined out, you can also use mergedfb for > dualhead. > > Alex > > ------------------ > > Hello, > > I have a portable (Sony GRX316MP) which contains a Radeon 7500 mobility > which > has dual-head capability. I know this chip CAN handle non-cloning dual > head > because the X server from Xig does it (and Windows of course). But the > Xig > server has some problems and it seems to only support two heads in > Xinerama > mode; I want to have separate X displays on both heads. > > But whatever configuration I try in XFree86 I at the most get a cloned > screen, > i.e. the secondary monitor shows (part of) the primary screen. > The primary screen is the laptop's LCD at 1600x1200@75Hz, the secondary > > monitor is an LCD 1280x1024@75Hz. > > To get the secondary screen to work at all I had to specify > Option "CloneMode" "1280x1024" > in the device section for the primary head, else it used the mode for > the > primary head regardless of the information in the Screen section and > the > information returned by DDC from the 2nd screen. > > Parts of my XF86Config: > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "XFree86 Dual-Head" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > Option "Clone" "off" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Card0" > Driver "radeon" > VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" > BoardName "Radeon VE" > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > Option "CloneMode" "1280x1024" > Option "CloneVRefresh" "75-75" > Screen 0 > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Card1" > Driver "radeon" > VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" > BoardName "Radeon VE" > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > Screen 1 > EndSection > > I also have Screen, Monitor and Modes sections for each separate > monitor. > > Whatever I do I either have no display on the secondary monitor at all, > or the > server dies with a SEGV, or I have a cloned display instead of a dual > head > (separate X desktops). I tried the Xinerama stuff also but this has no > effect > whatshowever which seems logical since i do not HAVE two heads to > Xinerama > on ;-) > I tried this on the SUSE 9.0 stock XFree which seems to be a patched > prerelease of XFree 4.3 (it has the warnings and reports a 4.2.99 > version > number). But I also compiled XFree 4.4-with-patches from source and it > doesn't work either. > > Can ANYONE help me? Please? I'm currently looking at the radeon_driver > source > but before I know what's going on there will take a while >-( > > Thans, > > Frits Jalvingh > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
