Re: XFree86-4.0.3-6 & 2nd Monitor

On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 06:52, Marco Bandner wrote:

> I'm a linux-newbie having upgraded to XFree86-4.0.3-6 and trying to use
> Dual-Head with ATI Radeon 9000 Pro. Actual I only can see the same
> desktop on both monitors. What can I do to have _one_ desktop spreeded
> over both monitors?

I strongly suspect this is due to a bug in the driver.  You're at least
the 3rd person to report this, although I think we're all using
different Radeon cards.  I'm using a 7000 and have seen this since
upgrading to 4.0.3-5 (which fixed the "primary screen blanks when you
click on the secondary screen" problem).

-Barry

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Re: XFree86-4.0.3-6 & 2nd Monitor

you need to add 
 	Screen      0
to your first device section.

Alex

--- Marco Bandner <marco.bandner <at> gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm a linux-newbie having upgraded to XFree86-4.0.3-6 and trying to
> use
> Dual-Head with ATI Radeon 9000 Pro. Actual I only can see the same
> desktop on both monitors. What can I do to have _one_ desktop
> spreeded
> over both monitors?
> 
> Below you can find an extract of my XF86Config and the XFree86.0.log
> 
> Thx,
> 
> Marco
> 
> 
> Extract of XF86Config:
> ----------------------
> 
> # XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
> 

Announcing GinGin64: A Technology Preview for the AMD64 Platform

I'm announcing this here to widen the distribution, as many X 
users may also be interested in XFree86 running on the AMD 64 bit 
technology platform "AMD64".

If you encounter bugs with XFree86 running on AMD Opteron 
hardware, please report them via bugzilla as instructed below, 
and flag them as "x86_64" (the old name for AMD64).  Be sure to 
include complete details as to the type of system you're using, 
what video hardware, and attach your X server log and config 
file.

Also, since this hardware is brand new technology to the larger 
general public, only a small subset of video hardware has been 
tested on this platform in 64bit mode.

While only certain hardware is officially supported, I'd like to
encourage anyone interested in testing various video hardware
they've got laying around out, in order to get a better idea 
what other hardware works and what hardware doesn't work at 
all.  In particular some of the older generations of hardware 
out there which might be laying in a drawer, etc.

If you test any extra hardware out, please post a message here to 
let us all know your results.  Feel free to file bug reports in 
bugzilla also if you like.

I'd basically like to know - for hardware I don't have 
access too currently, which drivers work at all on the new 
AMD64 platform, and which ones don't, so I can poke at them a bit 
and also decide which drivers will officially ship in our future 

Re: XFree86-4.0.3-6 & 2nd Monitor

On 30 Apr 2003, Marco Bandner wrote:

>Date: 30 Apr 2003 12:52:36 +0200
>From: Marco Bandner <marco.bandner <at> gmx.de>
>To: RH-List__XFree86 <xfree86-list <at> redhat.com>
>Reply-To: xfree86-list <at> redhat.com
>Content-Type: text/plain
>Subject: XFree86-4.0.3-6 & 2nd Monitor
>
>Hi!
>
>I'm a linux-newbie having upgraded to XFree86-4.0.3-6 and trying to use
>Dual-Head with ATI Radeon 9000 Pro. Actual I only can see the same
>desktop on both monitors. What can I do to have _one_ desktop spreeded
>over both monitors?
>
>Below you can find an extract of my XF86Config and the XFree86.0.log

"man radeon" and experiment with the options available for Radeon

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OT: xfs vs. freetype

Hi all,

My system is currently configured to use RH xfs as a font server, and it
works ok. AFAIK 'freetype' X11 module would be an alternative to it. I
tried disabling xfs on /etc/X11/XF86Config, but fonts came up big and
ugly (I didn't go too deep in reconfiguring my stuff). So, my questions
are:

1. what's the relationship between xfs and freetype?

2. what's the relationship between freetype X11 module and Freetype
[http://freetype.sourceforge.net/] ?

3. What are the differences/advantages one offers compared to the other?

TIA

Andre

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Re: XFree86-4.0.3-6 & 2nd Monitor

On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 09:22, Alex Deucher wrote:
> you need to add 
>  	Screen      0
> to your first device section.

It won't make a difference.  Mine has that and I still get mirrored
displays.

-Barry

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Help

Re: XFree86-4.0.3-6 & 2nd Monitor

I suspect it may be a bug in the driver because based on the xfree86
log that was sent to the list, I never saw the second instance of the
radeon driver start (i.e., radeon(0) is there, but not radeon(1)).  It
doesn't look like the shared entity code path is even being taken.  My
guess, without looking at the code, is that the check for dualhead,
might be missing your chipset, or perhaps the logic got screwed up at
some point.  Dualhead seems to work fine on my m6 based laptop, but
then again I'm using a semi-custom compiled radeon driver based on
4.3.0.  something might have gotten broken in the recent redhat code
updates.  I'd check the logic in the redhat version of RadeonPreInit()
and RadeonProbe().  I'll try and check them myself, maybe tomorrow...

Alex

--- Barry Warsaw <barry <at> python.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 09:22, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > you need to add 
> >  	Screen      0
> > to your first device section.
> 
> It won't make a difference.  Mine has that and I still get mirrored
> displays.
> 
> -Barry
> 

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Re: Help

this isn't really the appropriate list for general linux questions. 
this list is for discussion of xfree86 related issues.  but FWIW, the
newer versions of the distros (such as redhat 8 or 9) are very easy to
install and use.  check out http://www.linuxdoc.org for some good
howtos.  Search google for what you are trying to do, and I'm sure
someone has done it before you and documented it.   all you need is a
linux distro and a server to run it on.

Alex

--- Dano <dano3131 <at> cox.net> wrote:
> I no nothing about linux and want to set up a  small server with a
> web site and imp for e-mail how much work is it going to take?
> 
> what do I need besides imp and a copy of linux?
> 
> any one have a back up i can restore and tweek to work on my machine?
> 
> 

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Re: XFree86-4.0.3-6 & 2nd Monitor

On 1 May 2003, Barry Warsaw wrote:

>> I'm a linux-newbie having upgraded to XFree86-4.0.3-6 and trying to use
>> Dual-Head with ATI Radeon 9000 Pro. Actual I only can see the same
>> desktop on both monitors. What can I do to have _one_ desktop spreeded
>> over both monitors?
>
>I strongly suspect this is due to a bug in the driver.  You're at least
>the 3rd person to report this, although I think we're all using
>different Radeon cards.  I'm using a 7000 and have seen this since
>upgrading to 4.0.3-5 (which fixed the "primary screen blanks when you
>click on the secondary screen" problem).

It is called "clone mode", which intentionally displays the same 
image on both displays.

man radeon

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