[Xorg] Using 'radeon' _and_ 'ati-drivers' together

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 14:33, Christian Hoenig wrote: 
> Since the ati-driver does not work with xinerama, and since the radeon driver 
> (dri stuff) coming with xorg/xfree does not support 3D at all with that kind 
> of cards (correct me if I'm wrong), I'd like to start a seconde x server 
> using the binary ati-driver.  This kindof works in one direction (starting 
> the ati-driver powered xserver) but as soon as I switch back, I get my first 
> head of the radeon totally corrupted. A restart of X does not fix this. 
> 
> Is there any chance to do a reset or to get that fixed from the side of x.org? 

Probably, but hardly without information about exactly what fglrx does
differently.


> I will contact the ati-guys to get clarification concerning the bug using 
> xinerama with their driver (which in detail is that the mouse can be moved 
> (and seen) like it should, but the image behind the mouse on head 2 (i.e. the 
> desktop) is only a clone of the image of head1).

Sounds like it could be a configuration issue, is the second screen
correctly configured to a different position than the first one?


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