RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon X1950" (ChipID = 0x7240) - Metamodes - lircmd:

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:48 PM, wild-thing<revealed at freakmail.de> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I hope you could help me some? Many thanks in advance for helping.
>
> ## About my System:
> Hardware:
> Core 2 Duo E6600 2GB DDR2
> ASUS P5B
> ASUS EAX X1950 XTX
>
> I am on OpenSuSE 11.1 with repositorys known to be stable and latest patches
> and Updates.
>
> kde4-config --version
> Qt: 4.4.3
> KDE: 4.2.4 (KDE 4.2.4) "release 2"
> kde4-config: 1.0
>
> "Xorg -version" reports:
>
> X.Org X Server 1.6.1
> Release Date: 2009-4-14
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
> Build Operating System: openSUSE SUSE LINUX
> Current Operating System: Linux wild-thing 2.6.27.23-0.1-pae #1 SMP 2009-05-26
> 17:02:05 -0400 i686
> Build Date: 13 June 2009  07:45:26AM
>
>        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
>        to make sure that you have the latest version.
>
>
>
> ## About metamode question:
> When using a big desktop setup (2 Screens as one big desktop) and so called
> metamodes i cant switch back to to the big layout.
>
> CTRL + ALT + (+/-) switches but seems to not handle the big setup correctly?
>
> If the metamode line is not inserted into xorg.conf the keycombo works
> anyways. So there is no way to return for normal bigdesktop easily, for
> example when pressed accidentially.
>
> If metamodes is defined, maybe in this way:
> Option "MetaModes" "1024x768-1024x768"
> theres the same Problem.
>
> Is there any way to fix this? Can i go back to bigdesktop from metamode?
>
>

Metamodes are from the old mergedfb support in the radeon driver.
That has since been replaced by xrandr 1.2 support, so that option is
no longer relevant.  The problem is that ctrl-ali-+/- is not xrandr
aware, so it doesn't know how to deal with multiple heads.

Alex