From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23982 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2004 10:09:00 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 16 Oct 2004 10:09:00 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CIlUi-0005OB-P8 for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 10:09:00 +0000 Received: (qmail 18408 invoked by uid 89); 16 Oct 2004 10:08:59 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 5242 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2004 10:08:59 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 03:08:52 -0700 Organization: Sometimes Message-ID: References: <1097526348.30232.6.camel@helen.science.oregonstate.edu> <1097902422.1755.6.camel@mirage> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1250 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-66-58.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1 ready to go stable on all archs X-Archives-Salt: 0ffcc8d8-1e4e-4071-b936-96952ce54907 X-Archives-Hash: 4e5ffc73b5f3f28a3598f48d9aace944 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.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list