I have the subject graphics chip on the new eMachines M6805 AMD64 laptop, running Mandrake 9.2 AMD64. I downloaded and installed the Linux-amd64-glibc22 binary release. "sh Xinstall.sh -check" warned me that I had glibc23, and told me to try the supplied binary. I've done that, and I'm happy to report that with some manual tinkering, I have the native 1280x800 resolution on the laptop LCD, as well as the independent resolution on an external CRT. Much thanks to the XFree86 developers.
The issue I'm having is with dual head and more specifically the gnome-panel. I configured all this by hand as xf86config/cfg were not much help. Without Xinerama, I am able to get panels on both displays, and I'm able to relocate them to the top and bottom as I wish. However, any icons I put on the desktop on the CRT (secondary display) behave very strangely. If I try to move them, they slide right back where they were, or sometimes they'll just disappear completely. I can open up terminals there, however, and the display is not corrupted. But I really want to work with Xinerama, and that is where I've spent most of my time. In brief, with Xinerama on, I only get a panel on the LCD, which is fine. I can only put it on top or on the left. If I drag it to the bottom, it just disappears completely. Furthermore, if I have it on top, exit, edit XF86Config-4 and turn Xinerama off, startx, move panels to the bottom (which remember I can do with Xinerama off), then exit, if I now edit ~/.gconf/apps/panel/profiles/default/toplevels/bottom_panel/%gconf.xml, the "monitor" setting become "-1". If I turn Xinerama back on at this point, I'll have no displayed panels on either the LCD nor the CRT. I have to manually edit %gconf.xml and change monitor to "0" and reset the orientation to "top". I simply cannot get a bottom panel. I found the following bug, which seems related: http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1149 I need some guidance on where the issue might be and what would be most fruitful to attempt. Should I recompile all the 4.4.0 source with glibc23? -- Guy Rouillier _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
