Re: radeon driver only ever uses clone mode instead of dual head

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Please, please, send me your configuration file... 
 
Also, I have a ibook with ati readeon... 
 
to use the driver without framebuffer at my laptop, I have a very ugly video,
with horizontal lines dancing.. 
 
And also, using my second out to TV, I only get 640x480... 
 
How do I check if DRI is being used? 


Frits Jalvingh wrote:
> Gismo/Luca,
> 
> Thanks a million! I did never guess that the DRI drivers were that different! 
> I have a working, dual-head config now after compiling DRI from CVS over my 
> XFree 4.4 installation!
> 
> I just had to tweak the config you sent but that took only 30 minutes.
> 
> Thanks again!!!
> 
> Frits
> 
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>on 04/14/04 14:21, Frits Jalvingh wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>I've an ASUS M6842NWH with an ATI Radeon 9600 Mobility NP M10 and dual-head
>> work perfectly with the XF86Config-4 attached.
>>
>>
>>>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.
>>
>><cut>
>>
>>>I also have Screen, Monitor and Modes sections for each separate monitor.
>>
>>AFAIK this is not correct, in this way you configure your XFree86 to use
>>Xinerama. You should use the 'radeon' driver from the DRI package.
>>
>>Please visit these links:
>>	http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/ATIRadeon
>>	http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/MergedFB
>>	http://www.botchco.com/alex/radeon/mergedfb/cvs/DRI/final/radeon.4.html
>>
>>Thx, bye,
>>Gismo / Luca
>>
>>-------------------------------------------------------
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