problems with "ATI proprietary" R500 driver on xorg server 7.0.1

[Richard Wilbur]

On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 17:25 -0700, Dan Engholm wrote:
> Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> > On 25.09.2009 07:22, Dan Engholm wrote:
> >   
> >> Dear list,
> >>
> >> I have a PC with an ATI FireGL V3400 display adapter.  It has two flat
> >> panel LCD monitors connected via DVI and I want to set it up with a
> >> single desktop spanning the two.  After some research, I figured that I
> >> had to install the ATI proprietary driver to get the Xinerama extension
> >> for this card so I got it and installed it with no apparent problems. 
> [...]
> >> If anybody has any ideas on how to get around this problem, I would
> >> appreciate hearing them.  Other information is available upon request. 
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>     
> >
> > if you insist on proprietary driver, r5xx and older are only supported
> > in the legacy driver (9.3) not the current one.
> >
> > Roland
> >   
> Roland,
> 
> I don't insist.  In fact, I would prefer not using proprietary 
> software.  When I started looking into this problem, I had trouble 
> finding anything on the Web and what little I did find indicated that I 
> needed to get the proprietary drivers from AMD.  I'm still no wiser 
> about other options so if you have any pointers or information on other 
> solutions, I would be happy to hear them.
> 
> --Dan

Dear Dan,

The Wikipedia page[1] identifies your FireGL V3400 as an R520 core.  The
Radeon Xorg wiki page[2] indicates you should expect support from the
open source driver--at least in recent snapshots.  The recent code
supports xrandr which deals with multiple displays.

Sincerely,

Richard

References:
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_graphics_processing_units 
[2] http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon 
(Look around the heading "What about other drivers?")

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