randr 1.2 and traditional multi-head

Bernard Siaud alias Troumad liste at siaud.org
Mon Sep 3 14:01:21 PDT 2007


Matthieu Herrb a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> is the "traditional" multi-head mode (ie one X screen per monitor) still
> supported in the randr-1.2 aware drivers ?
>
> Apart from the fact that some users are used to it and don't want to
> change their configs nor their habits, there are some cases like
> configuration with one touchscreen where separating the screens is useful.
>
> Using the radeon driver on a Radeon 9200 card with both a DVI and a VGA
> output, and the server-1.4-branch code, I can't get my old config to
> work. With 2 device sections in xorg.conf, both instances of the driver
> get loaded, probe the outputs, but the 2nd one can't find a valid mode
> to use.
>
> Is there a way to have 2 X screens in such a config with xrandr 1.2?
>   
Now, 1 section device, 1 section screen, 1 section monitor !
I have a ati in a desktop and a intel in a ladtop ;)
You can see in french :
http://troumad.developpez.com/linux/serveurx/xorg/#L4

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