Multiple monitors

[Rafał Miłecki]

2009/10/6 Paul van der Vlis <paul at vandervlis.nl>:
> Rafał Miłecki schreef:
>> 2009/10/6 Paul van der Vlis <paul at vandervlis.nl>:
>>> Rafał Miłecki schreef:
>>>> It's matter of modesetting, so it's DDX (xf86-video-ati) related.
>>> I am using Xorg Xserver 1.4.2, and radeon 4.3 driver at the moment
>>> (Debian Lenny).
>>
>> Huh, that's quite... antic. I found /something/ called xf86-4_3_0_1
>> but it's from 2003! I have no idea what was state of open driver in
>> that year.
>>
>> You may try luck, but I guess you will need to think about big update.
>
> This driver knows my ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics, and that's not really
> old.

Isn't it? OK, Debian packaging/versioning is mystery for me.


> The radeonhd driver in my distribution does not know the ATI Radeon HD
> 3200.  Or will it work, and can I add the name somewhere?
>
> http://packages.debian.org/lenny/xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd

It's 1.2.1 version which is old and may be problematic. If you want to
try radeonhd you should install 1.2.5 or coming-soon 1.2.6.

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Rafał