Dual monitor on radeon

Fabio Varesano fvaresano at inwind.it
Fri Mar 31 15:07:13 PST 2006


I finally get dual head work on stock Xorg 7.0
on my Ati Radeon Mobility 9000 using MergedFB.

I used http://mg.pov.lt/xorg.conf as starting point.
Works good.

Thanks to all.

Fabio


Paul Kaplan wrote:
> On Friday 31 March 2006 01:48, Fabio Varesano wrote:
>> This is exactly the same problem I'm experiencing here.
>> I looked into Xorg.0.log but I didn't found errors or similar.
>>
>> Does someone know if it possible to use dual monitor in stock
>> Xorg 7.0 release using MergedFB instead of Xinerama?
>> Is this also broken with radeon dri drivers?
>>
> Don't know, but xorg 6.9 broke dual head w/ Xinerama using radeon drivers.  
> Switching to MergedFB solved the problem.  Since 6.9 and 7.0 are related I'd 
> wager MergedFB would work for 7.0.
> Paul
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