On Friday 02 February 2007 05:50, Robert J. C. Himmelmann wrote: <snip> > I mostly agree to what has been said before. If you have an ATI-card you > will probably get trouble. Their driver supports Xinerma but very > poorly. When you maximize a window it is extended over both screens, you > cannot have DRI and Xinerama at the same time &c. Also the displays you > use should match. Especially for older laptops (like mine) the > brightness and contrast will be much worse than that of new LCDs. > Because of these problems I do not use Xinerama although I got it working.
On the slightly old ATI cards (up to around the Radeon 9800 or just past), you can get dual monitors without Xinerama. This is with the radeon *free* driver, and it has DRI, opengl and xinerama-type extensions. You have to use the mergedFB option. Email me for my xorg.conf file, which is working for me. > Herzliche Grüße, > Robert J. C. Himmelmann Regards Lee Begg
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