[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 6.5.8.0

[Alex Deucher]

On 5/3/06, pds <psnider at adelphia.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 May 2006 11:37:09 +1000
> "Dave Airlie" <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 01:46 +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
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> > > > > Stable release of ATI driver for Xorg 7.0, it includes mainly
> > > > > the fixes from Ben Herrenschmidt for radeon memory mapping
> > > > > along with some cleanups on top of those fixes for regressions
> > > > > caused.
> > > >
> > > > Along with a lot of other fixes for regressions between 6.8 ->
> > > > 7.0 :)
> > >
> > > Do you know if the dual head configured as separate heads are
> > > supported in this driver (not clone mode) ?  The dual separate head
> > > configuration worked in 6.8 (fedora 4).
> >
> > Yup either mergedfb or xinerama should work, but I haven't tested it..
>
> Xinerama and the ati mergefb, one large screen works with the previous
> driver too. I'm interested in 2 dual heads as separate unique
> displays.  I actually use xinerama and mergefb at work and at home I
> prefer to have the 2 separate heads.  There are times when I only use
> one head at home.

from the driver's perspective "regular" multi-head and xinerama are
identical.  Thus if one works, the other should too.  Just don't load
the xinerama extension and you will get "regular" multi-head. 
Xinerama just merges multiple unique displays into one logical screen.

Alex

>
> -pete
> >
> > Dave.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > -pete
> > >
> > > >
> > > > > http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/xf86-video-ati-6.5.8.0.tar.bz2
> > > > > md5: 6d99444b698b762d689b30a1e4f36c55
> > > > > xf86-video-ati-6.5.8.0.tar.bz2 sha1:
> > > > > d0f7c9e7447e0219ea8616bb65a9e23d9ce5eb7c
> > > > > xf86-video-ati-6.5.8.0.tar.bz2
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/xf86-video-ati-6.5.8.0.tar.gz
> > > > > md5: 2ec5d16b011e3ea685f1ca8a3b4684ff
> > > > > xf86-video-ati-6.5.8.0.tar.gz sha1:
> > > > > 104e9f11b94561e2084493e2cf970bca1a1768ae
> > > > > xf86-video-ati-6.5.8.0.tar.gz
> > > > >
> > > > > Dave.
> > > > >
> > > > > - --
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