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

2003-09-22 Thread Alex Deucher
You don't appear to be using a patched server. you need to apply the mergedfb patch from bugzilla (http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276) or use one of my patched binaries. Alex - OK. Once again, Radeon 7500, XFree86 4.3.99.12. Trying to use mergedfb with dri

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

2003-09-17 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:51:54PM -0400, Eric J Bowser wrote: 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

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

2003-09-03 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Eric J Bowser wrote: Is ther a complete option list for radeon mergedfb available anywhere? There doesn't seem to be a man page... The radeon MergedFB mode is identical to the SiS one. Quite a lot of information about this mode can be found on www.winischhofer.net/linuxsisvga.shtml From what

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

2003-09-02 Thread Alex Deucher
The bug with the second head going into powersave mode was fixed just after 4.3.0 was released. I have a fixed binary for glibc 2.3 based installs here (redhat 9, etc.) here: http://www.botchco.com/alex/radeon/430bugfix/radeon_drv.o Just copy the file into your existing installation. make sure

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:

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