Radeon 350 problem
Alex Deucher
alexdeucher at gmail.com
Tue Mar 28 10:58:49 PST 2006
On 3/28/06, Jeremy Lawler <jeremylawler at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a dual head radeon 9600 problem running in linux stable. This
> problem did not occur in 6.8.2, and originally showed up in 6.9.0. I
> "solved" the problem by rolling back to 6.8.2, but now it seems the problem
> is not going to be fixed, most likely because no one else reported it.
>
> The problem is that in X windows, the image on the primary monitor is copied
> is displayed on the second monitor. HOWEVER, it believe it's displaying 2
> different images, and I can scroll the mouse onto the second montior.
> However, I cannot interact with anything on that screen, as they are not
> really "there." For example, when I started firefox, it started in the
> second window, and i had to "guess" where it was showing up and drag it onto
> the main monitor.
>
> I know just about nothing regaurding xorg, so I have pieced my config file
> together from things I've found online.
>
> Again, up until the migration to 6.9.0 this config worked for me. I'm
> running to 21" crt monitors.
>
This has been fixed in xorg cvs HEAD and the ati-1.0-branch. you can
either build from source or grab an x86 binary snapshot here:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download#head-55420c59a1c2e9a70f07a6fa02f0d228ffb87b76
Alex
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