On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 10:34, J. Imlay wrote: > > I'm using a dell box with a radeon VE, it has 1 dvi out that goes into a > y with 2 vga outs connected to two monitors, I have setup my Xconfig to do > the dualhead and I have xinerama working, but only the main monitor is > ever on. The other monitor never turns on, but the desktop is definitly > extended onto it. xwininfo -root says the desktop is 3200x1200 and the > /var/log/XFree86.log has the output and proper mode liens for both > monitors and it detects everything about them both right. Showing the > stat's for the first monitor under the RADEON(0) lines and the second > under RADEON(1) lines. > > What I have figured out so far from reading posts on xpert and google > lists, is that I think I might need to turn on the second DAC, but I have > no clue how to do this, what I got from xpert wasn't exactly > comprehensible to me. > > And I found some mentioning of a patch in CVS for this but it didn't look > like a good patch because some one replied saying it wasn't necesary (I > think) > > So does anyone have any advice or ideas? Would doing a make world on X CVS > possibly fix this?
AIUI yes. I think patches and binaries for released versions have also been posted to the Xpert list, but I don't know if or how well they work. At any rate, the information you need is far more likely to be on the Xpert list than this one. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
