Re: Dual-head without XINERAMA ?

2003-09-08 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Billy Biggs wrote: http://vektor.ca/bugs/atidriver/xpdy2.log includes the lines screen #0: dimensions:2560x1024 pixels (867x347 millimeters) resolution:75x75 dots per inch is that any use ? Not in general. I use the vidmode extension to get the current

Re: Dual-head without XINERAMA ?

2003-09-08 Thread Billy Biggs
Thomas Winischhofer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Billy Biggs wrote: http://vektor.ca/bugs/atidriver/xpdy2.log includes the lines screen #0: dimensions:2560x1024 pixels (867x347 millimeters) resolution:75x75 dots per inch is that any use ? Not in general. I use the

Re: Dual-head without XINERAMA ?

2003-09-08 Thread Alex Deucher
It appears that the ati firegl driver does not support xinerama when using its dualhead/mergedfb mode. I'd be happy to add xinerama support for ati's driver. just tell them to release the source ;) I suppose as a work-around you could divide the width by 2 for modes like 2048x768 or 2560x1024,

Re: Dual-head without XINERAMA ?

2003-09-08 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Alex Deucher wrote: It appears that the ati firegl driver does not support xinerama when using its dualhead/mergedfb mode. I'd be happy to add xinerama support for ati's driver. just tell them to release the source ;) Hm, I don't recall any required explicit code for Xinerama support in my

Re: Dual-head without XINERAMA ?

2003-09-08 Thread Billy Biggs
Thomas Winischhofer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): No idea what the ATI folks have done there... seems to be some sort of mergedfb mode, too. Does that piece support normal dual head mode (speak: 2 device sections, 2 screen sections, etc)? Yes it does, but users always whine and complain when I

Re: Dual-head without XINERAMA ?

2003-09-08 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Thomas Winischhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Deucher wrote: It appears that the ati firegl driver does not support xinerama when using its dualhead/mergedfb mode. I'd be happy to add xinerama support for ati's driver. just tell them to release the source ;) Hm, I don't

Re: Dual-head without XINERAMA ?

2003-09-08 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Billy Biggs wrote: Thomas Winischhofer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): No idea what the ATI folks have done there... seems to be some sort of mergedfb mode, too. Does that piece support normal dual head mode (speak: 2 device sections, 2 screen sections, etc)? Yes it does, but users always whine and

Dual-head without XINERAMA ?

2003-09-07 Thread Billy Biggs
Hey all, I'm looking for some advice about a driver which is in dual-head mode but does not seem to support XINERAMA. This driver is the latest ATI (firegl?) driver. Logs from this server were sent to me by the user: http://vektor.ca/bugs/atidriver/ I'm wondering if there are other

Re: Dual-head without XINERAMA ?

2003-09-07 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Billy Biggs wrote: Hey all, I'm looking for some advice about a driver which is in dual-head mode but does not seem to support XINERAMA. This driver is the latest ATI (firegl?) driver. Logs from this server were sent to me by the user: http://vektor.ca/bugs/atidriver/

Re: Dual-head without XINERAMA ?

2003-09-07 Thread Billy Biggs
Andrew C Aitchison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The problem is that my application needs geometry information to calculate the pixel aspect ratio. X tells me the geometry is 867mm x 347mm but the vidmode extension tells me the current resolution is 1280x1024, and so my pixel aspect ratio