ati driver dual head 2nd monitor incorrect resolution

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:11:57 -0700 (PDT), John H. <mistamaila at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was told I needed to upgrade from 6.7 to 6.8.1 to
> get xinerama if I only had one card.

Both should work fine, with the exception of the bug in 6.8 that
affects certain users.

Alex

> --- Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:31:10 -0700 (PDT), John H.
> > <mistamaila at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > this is not on a radeon mobile, if that matters.
> > it's
> > > a 9600se.
> > >
> >
> > I suspect all chips are affected.
> >
> > > Here is my entire xorg.conf.
> >
> > one last thing, try removing the monitorlayout
> > option from your
> > "Card1" device section.  I doubt it'll help, but you
> > never know.
> >
> > As an alternative, you could backup your
> > radeon_drv.o and drop in the
> > one from xorg 6.7.  that one should work.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > >
> > > I am just wanting to get big desktop mode, with
> > crt
> > > having 1600x1200, and lcd having 1024x768, without
> > > scrolling, that's all:(  LCD is attached to DVI
> > port
> > > with vga->dvi adapter.
> > >