On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 11:21:43AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:17, W. Crowshaw wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:28:46PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 23:17, William Crowshaw wrote: > > > > > > > > I would really like to get 2 monitors going [...] > > > > > > The atimisc driver doesn't support this yet. > > > > > Yep, I know. The card docs say that this is > > impossible as well. No, I had intended to run > > monitor off of /chaos/control (the 7500 built in > > video) and the other, larger, monitor over the ati > > card. > > This might work, using the fbdev driver for the control. > Exactly what I was thinking, using the much improved controlfb...
> > Additionally, I thought I would say that, even > > though I cannot get a console or a X session using > > this ati connected to my Dell monitor, this isn't > > a problem with the card itself because 1) it behaves > > great on the MacOS and 2) I have three of these > > cards and they all behave the same way on X. > > > > Any ideas, or should I just sell the cards on e-bay? > > I'd try a newer XFree86 version first. > Really? Say it isn't so. Upgrading to debian unstable isn't very enticing and damn if I want to build another app from scratch. My debian system is starting to look like gentoo. Before I made the plunge, could you or someone else give me any assurances that it would be worth the trouble? > -- > Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer > Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r?enzer -- wcrowshaw