ati driver dual head 2nd monitor incorrect resolution

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Tue Oct 12 11:30:44 PDT 2004


On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:27:02 -0700 (PDT), John H. <mistamaila at yahoo.com> wrote:
> So with my current config, it should work if I
> downgrade the radeon driver?
> 

Should.

> 
> --- Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > > > >
> >
> 
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