From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gch5c-0003JC-UB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:38:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9PBaOOh029698; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:36:24 GMT Received: from riddlemaster.org (dsl-209-170-146-89.fay.portbridge.com [209.170.146.89]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9PBXHuE032105 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:33:18 GMT Received: (qmail 26428 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2006 11:27:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO riddlemaster.org) (192.168.2.12) by 0 with SMTP; 25 Oct 2006 11:27:34 -0000 From: Daniel D Jones To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ATI drivers Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:34:14 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200610242055.52183.ddjones@riddlemaster.org> <200610250758.23988.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200610250758.23988.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610250734.14503.ddjones@riddlemaster.org> X-Archives-Salt: 1c2915c5-0d61-41cb-bd42-4fb27fbe6a33 X-Archives-Hash: 42f7149ceed3c770009a19478455f6ab On Wednesday 25 October 2006 02:58, Mick wrote: r> On Wednesday 25 October 2006 01:55, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > Option "MerdgedFB" "true" > > Not sure, but could this have something to do with it? I believe it may have. From what I've read, merged frame buffers are to allow the use of 3D acceleration across multiple monitors by making it appear as one large monitor, which is what appears to be happening. When I right click the desktop and go to properties, it shows only a single monitor. Before, it showed two. As I said before, I don't really need 3D acceleration on this box. Additionally, I don't believe acceleration works on a display larger than 2048 in either dimension and my virtual desktop is 3360 x 1050. However, without the MergedFB setup, I get mirrored displays rather than a stretched display. The Dual Monitor Howto, which I linked to in my first post, says to use the MergedFB option, and it also says to turn on xinerama. If my understanding of MergedFB is correct and it's working as designed and presents a virtual single display, then xinerama isn't going to work because it can't distinguish between the two displays. So I don't know if my understanding of how this is supposed to work is incorrect, if the HowTo is simply FUBARed or what. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list