Greetings, all.

I've just installed Drake 9.1 because I'm just that kind of guy, and I can't for the life of me get my second monitor to be the other half of a desktop.

Further, I used Option "CloneDisplay" "0" in XF86Config-4 to try to turn off the second output period, and it doesn't seem to care because it's still gleefully mirroring the primary monitor as if to say "Hah, foolish human, I am your superior."

Has anyone had any luck with any distro with the new kernel and Xfree getting duals to work with the R300 chip cards? If so, I'd greatly appreciate a heads up as to how I can get mine to work properly.

Thanks,

Whir

That's a pretty generic heading for a dual display set up, you already have your monitor/screen/card defs working right if both monitors are one... what's your serverlayout section look like?

Cheers,

Finegan

Well, I've tried adding the devices/monitors/screens and doing the serverlayout like you've got them there, and that still doesn't work. I'm thinking it might have something to do with the Radeon drivers that come with XFree 4.3.5. I'm not exactly familiar with them as I haven't run a Linux box in like two years.

Nevertheless, I'll give that a try and get back.

Also, I'm not sure on this, because I've never done this before, but it might be because Xinerama is supposed to be for two seperate cards and I'm only using a single? No idea, but that had crossed my mind. All the info I could find on Xinerama was sketchy.

/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 right?

I keep setting Option "CloneDisplay" "0" and the log keeps saying there's no CloneDisplay option set. Raaargh!

Xinerama is for spanning, one card or two, it doesn't work with DRI yet, but that's all that's a downside, that clip came from a two-head, two-card configuration, but its the same layout section as my Matrox G550, one card, two heads. CloneDisplay is specifically the Server option for mirroring.

Cheers,

Finegan

Try using the new driver from FireGL with the card, it will install a control pannel that will let you do that.

Be warned:
The new drivers are still in BETA and have some 2D problems: screen artifacts when scrolling/moving a window. If you are still interested in them, try a google search with the term glx1_linux_X4.3.zip.

[root@localhost XFree 4.3.0-2.9.6]# rpm -Uvh fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6.i586.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 from install of fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-2.9.6 conflicts with file from package XFree86-libs-4.3-5mdk

Should I -i --force this, or is that gonna hose me even more?

Nope, you are supposed to do so. If for any reason you encounter problems with the driver and resolve to uninstall it, the rpm -e fglrx-xxx command will restore your libGL.so and symlinks to what they were before the driver installation.

Where does it put this control panel?

You are using KDE, right? you can start it from the K menu (don't remember in what submenu though).

edit:
I do not have it because I don't have QT3 (required by the applet)
If you do not have it, you can compile it from /usr/src/ there are the sources for the panel in tar.gz format.

I don't think it installed correctly then as I can't seem to find it anywhere. It's not just an upgrade to XFDrake, right?

I have the wrong version of glibc apparently.

It looks like I'll just have to wait for ATI to catch up.

Errr... check your /usr/X11R6/bin directory for a file called fireglcontrol

Nope.

I am doomed.

What is your glibc versin, anywy?