[gentoo-dev] Re: xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1 ready to go stable on all archs

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Lance Albertson posted <1097902422.1755.6.camel@mirage>, excerpted below, 
on Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:53:42 -0500:

> I know I'm a little late in responding to this thread, but I just found
> out that 6.8.0-r1 breaks xinerama/dual+ display support for anyone running
> the Radeon chipset.
> 
> I'm curious, are there any Radeon users out there running Xinerama that
> aren't having problems with this version?

I'm running it here, with a Radeon 9200SE AGP dual output card, no
problems.  That's using the libreware drivers, and dual monitors, both
running 2048x1536, oriented one above the other for a 2048x3072 virtual
desktop.

Further, I've run both the standard dual adaptor/monitor/screen xorg.conf
(my default setup), and tried the new "MergedFB" mode as well.  I ended up
going back to standard Xinerama mode however, because MergedFB doesn't
handle a larger than 2048x2048 in 3D accelerated mode anyway, and while it
does handle a large enough 2D mode, the inflexibility of having a single
unified resolution list as opposed to being able to handle each screen
resolution separately, coupled with not being able to do 3D anyway due to
my chosen resolutions, meant the standard Xinerama mode was the better
solution for me.

OTOH, I haven't recently tried running with two separate video cards
entirely.  I had tried back with kernel 2.4/XFree, and couldn't get that
to work, as it'd never seem to initialize the second card correctly, altho
I know what it's like working, as I had it working with an NVidia dual
output card and their proprietaryware drivers, using an old 4MB S3 Virge
PCI as the second card driving the third monitor.  Just couldn't get the
libreware Radeon drivers to do it, tho.  Anyway, maybe two physical cards
was working with kernel 2.6 and xorg, and isn't now, as I haven't tried
two physical cards, only two outputs on the same card, which as I said,
works, here.

It also may be that I'm running AMD64 and yes it does work on that, but
maybe it doesn't on legacy 32-bit x86, or whatever other arch you may be
using.  (Of course, another variable is that I'm running gcc-3.4, which is
stable on amd64.  Maybe it works with gcc-3.4, but not with 3.3 or
whatever.  And.. yes I DID verify I'm running xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1, so we're
talking about the same thing there.)

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