R500/F10 Cursor on Second Head?

[Thomas J. Baker]

On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 15:25 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Thomas J. Baker <tjb at unh.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Any way to get a cursor on the second head with an ATI R500 and current
> > Fedora 10? I've got a new X1950PRO and am looking for best settings.
> > Also, I'm assuming that with a minimal xorg.conf file that just sets up
> > the two heads, all other options are set optimally? Any speed tweaks I
> > could add?
> 
> The cursor should just work on the second head.  What sort of problem
> are you having?
> 
> Alex

I got a couple of suggestions off list and turning on the software
cursor fixed it. It's also a little strange that a test of disabling kms
made things quite a bit worse. My monitors got reversed and I had lots
of corruption of the display. I did get a cursor on both screens though!

Thanks,

tjb
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