On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Aljaž Prusnik <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 14:49 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Aljaž Prusnik <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi there! >> > >> > I posted this on IRC but will do here as well until I know whether I >> > should file a bug or not. >> > >> > In terminal mode (with KMS) and dual screen (left monitor: 1920x1200, >> > right monitor 1600x1200) I have a white stripe on the left monitor and >> > it looks like if it's a compensation for the missing 320 pixels of the >> > right monitor. The picture is here: >> > http://www.tikataka.com/files/dualscreen_low.JPG >> > >> > Is this a known issue? >> > >> >> This is not a driver bug, it is a limitation of the kernel framebuffer >> and console interfaces. They don't have any concept of multi-head >> cards. In order to prevent any information printed to the console >> from being lost, the console comes up as the largest size that will >> fit on all attached monitors. If you want a more flexible use the >> monitors, you'll need to use the kms interface like the X driver does. >> > > Thanx for the info. I'm not sure I understand the last sentence nor I'm > sure I'll ever need such thing it's only the white color that is a > little annoying, hence another question - is there a chance for the > "missing space" to not be white (and be black)? Is this something they > can do in that kernel framebuffer or do they need the white color to > catch the potentially lost stuff?
We should be able to change the color. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
