[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 6.5.8.0

[psnider at adelphia.net]

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

Ok, I'll give it a shot when I get home today.  If this is true with the default driver in xorg 7.0, then it will default to the clone mode.  IMHO the clone mode is useless except for a few special cases.  (Just incase, clone mode is the same graphics on both screens.  The driver will allow different different size screens and different scan rates in clone mode, but still the 2 screens will be identical graphics.)  Has 2 distinct heads been tested?

-pete


> 
> >
> > -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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