[XFree86] clarification about mergedfb and radeon cards

2003-09-18 Thread Eric J Bowser
Just to clarify: Is mergedfb support for Radeon cards built in to snapshots = 4.3.99.10, or do the snapshots still need to be patched??? Thanks! ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86

Re: [XFree86] dual heads/single card help please

2003-09-17 Thread Eric J Bowser
OK. Once again, Radeon 7500, XFree86 4.3.99.12. Trying to use mergedfb with dri acceleration. It seems like no matter what I try, I get the following log message: (WW) RADEON(0): Option MergedFB is not used Accompanied by this, are two monitors both displaying the same picture, but a

Re: [XFree86] dual heads/single card help please

2003-09-02 Thread Eric J Bowser
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 15:53, Alex Deucher wrote: Mergedfb does not work that same as xinerama based dualhead from a configuration perspective. With mergedfb you only have a single device section in your config file with some new special options. see my sample config here:

[XFree86] compiling from a snapshot

2003-09-01 Thread Eric J Bowser
about 4 hours on google, and no luck yet... does anybody have links to howto's for compiling xfree86 from source? thanks! ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86

Re: [XFree86] compiling from a snapshot

2003-09-01 Thread Eric J Bowser
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 03:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try www.linuxfromscratch.org ,Fernan wonderful! thank you. i don't know how i managed to type xfree compile and so on into google all night and not come up with that. thanks again! ps: this list is great. i've been stumped for days

Re: [XFree86] dual heads/single card help please

2003-09-01 Thread Eric J Bowser
On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 21:05, William Gallafent wrote: This sounds like a bug which has been fixed in more recent versions of XFree86 (but which is not yet in an actual release). If you're happy with building and installing from source, try the development snapshot at