RE: [XFree86] sample radeon7500 dual-head config?

[Furnish, Trever G]

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From: Michel Dänzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 6:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [XFree86] sample radeon7500 dual-head config?


On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 23:30, Trever Furnish wrote: 
...
 How are the screen and device sections supposed to be set up?  Do I need 
 two separate device sections?  Two separate screen sections?  If I need 
 two device sections, how are they to differ?  (I already tried just 
 repeating the device section with different ID's, but it warns me that 
 the busid is repeated and only uses one monitor.)

You need to put

Screen  0

in one device section and

Screen  1

in the other.

-

Thanks, sir.  I finally figured that out (should have read the man pages
more carefully the first time).  It still didn't work.  Then I rebooted the
box, for a completely different reason, and discovered both monitors came
up.  Tried the dual config and X works.

The system hadn't been rebooted since I attached the vga monitor to the dvi
port (via dvi/vga adaptor).  I'm assuming that the vid card only detects the
monitor on the dvi port when it's initially powered on.  It just never
occured to me it might work that way, so I never rebooted.  I guess I also
should have gotten it from the RADEON(1): No monitor detected message.

So all works now.  Thanks for the help.

--
Trever

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Re: [XFree86] sample radeon7500 dual-head config?

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 23:30, Trever Furnish wrote: 
 I've stared at the radeon manual page from 4.2.99.902 for quite a while 
 now and tried a few things, but I don't think I'm getting the config 
 quite right to tell X that I want to use both ports of my dvi/vga 
 radeon7500 in xinerama mode.  Anyone have a working config file you 
 could share?
 
 I'm not sure where to start.  Cloning, which the radeon man page 
 mentions, doesn't sound like what I want - I don't want identical output 
 on two displays, but rather two displays treated as separate screens 
 and combined using Xinerama.
 
 How are the screen and device sections supposed to be set up?  Do I need 
 two separate device sections?  Two separate screen sections?  If I need 
 two device sections, how are they to differ?  (I already tried just 
 repeating the device section with different ID's, but it warns me that 
 the busid is repeated and only uses one monitor.)

You need to put

Screen  0

in one device section and

Screen  1

in the other.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

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