Two Screens with Radeon... How?

[Hamish Marson]

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Hi.

OK, I admit I've googled till I'm blue in the face. Read archives and
news groups till i"m blue in the face, but I can't find a definitive
answer as to how dual screen displays should be setup when using a
dual output radeon (Sapphire 9600 256MB) card with DVI and VGA outputs
on two monitors with different resolutions.

So far I can get clone (Which looks a little strange as my 1024x768
VGA TFT tries to do the 1680x1050 of my DVI TFT), 'Xinerama' like by
radeon with scrolling display on the 1024x768 screen.

What I'd really like is someting akin to KDE's multiple desktop
support... Where a window can be moved from desktop to desktop by
window menu option, I don't really care about being able to drag &
drop betwene them, although that would be nice...

One thing I do want is when maximising a window, I want it to grow to
the size of the current monitor... Not to cover both... And I don't
want my KDE taskbar across both... Just across my main window (But
don't mind if there's another on the other display I guess).

Is this possible? Anyone? I've seen configs around using two device
sections. Some with one device section. Some with one device, two
screen & two monitor sections... So many combinations, I'm not sure
exactly what should go together to give me what I want any more. The
closest I've got so far is using 6.9, and mergednonrectangular but the
kde taskbar still stretched across the whole width and so does growing
windows... (Missing xinerama support when compiling kde perhaps? Not
being sure what KDE xinerama support actually does. Wrong group for
that I know. Apologies in advance).

Oh. lspci appended below... The card shows up as dual devices... This
has given be gip with various config complaing that no device found
for the second head, or vice versa. And the ATI drivers don't like my
pciid.... So much for hostageware.





TIA

Hamish.
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