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

[Dan Engholm]

Cooper,

Thanks for the reply.  None of the suggestions worked.  Aticonfig 
doesn't do anything useful, it just says it doesn't detect a supported 
adapter.  admcccle reports a similar message.  Another reply to my query 
may have the key to this problem.  He said that R500 isn't supported in 
the current drivers.

--Dan

Cooper Yuan wrote:
> it seems a workstation card, there are 3 solutions you could try.
> 1. run two commands in console mode,
> "aticonfig --initial=dual-head"
> "aticonfig --xinerama=on"
> if the two commands are successful, your xorg.conf should has the same 
> sections with attachement.
>  
> 2. use one monitor to startx and connect another, and then configure 
> xinerama by command "amdcccle", this command could provide a 
> friendly GUI to you. 
>  
> 3. don't use xinerama, just run the command to achieve a single 
> desktop spanning the two, run "aticonfig –dtop=horizontal".
>  
> Cooper
>
>  
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Dan Engholm <mustang at engholm.org 
> <mailto:mustang at engholm.org>> 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.  Unfortunately, aticonfig reports that
>     it cannot find suitable hardware so I had to configure the server
>     by hand.  I found that it works just fine with Clone on and
>     Xinerama off but if I reverse the two, the server crashes with
>     this in the log:
>
>     Backtrace:
>     0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x71) [0x48e8f1]
>     1: /lib64/libc.so.6 [0x3b2b6302d0]
>     2: X(xf86RandR12CreateScreenResources+0x38e) [0x4b7c0e]
>     3: X [0x4b1d3f]
>     4: X(main+0x2e5) [0x4333b5]
>     5: /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x3b2b61d994]
>     6: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x229) [0x4327f9]
>
>     The driver says this of the adapter:
>     (--) R500(0): Chipset: "ATI FireGL V3400" (ChipID = 0x71d2)
>
>     I could not find any driver version information in the log but I
>     just downloaded it from AMD on the 15th.  The installer's filename
>     is ati-driver-installer-9-9-x86.x86_64.run.
>
>     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.
>
>     --Dan
>
>
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