Two Screens with Radeon... How?

[Marcus Schäfer]

Hi,

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> Hi.
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> OK, I admit I've googled till I'm blue in the face. Read archives and
> news groups till i"m blue in the face, but I can't find a definitive
> answer as to how dual screen displays should be setup when using a
> dual output radeon (Sapphire 9600 256MB) card with DVI and VGA outputs
> on two monitors with different resolutions.
> 
> So far I can get clone (Which looks a little strange as my 1024x768
> VGA TFT tries to do the 1680x1050 of my DVI TFT), 'Xinerama' like by
> radeon with scrolling display on the 1024x768 screen.
> 
> What I'd really like is someting akin to KDE's multiple desktop
> support... Where a window can be moved from desktop to desktop by
> window menu option, I don't really care about being able to drag &
> drop betwene them, although that would be nice...
> 
> One thing I do want is when maximising a window, I want it to grow to
> the size of the current monitor... Not to cover both... And I don't
> want my KDE taskbar across both... Just across my main window (But
> don't mind if there's another on the other display I guess).
> 
> Is this possible? Anyone? I've seen configs around using two device
> sections. Some with one device section. Some with one device, two
> screen & two monitor sections... So many combinations, I'm not sure
> exactly what should go together to give me what I want any more. The
> closest I've got so far is using 6.9, and mergednonrectangular but the
> kde taskbar still stretched across the whole width and so does growing
> windows... (Missing xinerama support when compiling kde perhaps? Not
> being sure what KDE xinerama support actually does. Wrong group for
> that I know. Apologies in advance).
> 
> Oh. lspci appended below... The card shows up as dual devices... This
> has given be gip with various config complaing that no device found
> for the second head, or vice versa. And the ATI drivers don't like my
> pciid.... So much for hostageware.

If you are using Fedora Core4 or SuSE you can try to use sax2

	ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/sax/head-build

Regards
Marcus
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