After considerable hair pulling and gnashing of teeth I finally installed X 4.3 and (after reading the manual) I have my Radeon 9000 Pro running Dual Head nicely with Xinerama and the plain 4.3 version.
I was lucky I suppose because it compiled and installed on RH 8 with no real problems. I'm no linux expert by any means so if it hadn't worked I'd be stuck but it was amazingly painless. I'm using the Radeon driver. I convert the DVI jack to a VGA with a supplied dongle. My only problem is that my monitors won't handle the same sync frequencies. Not really a problem, just inconvenient. On my system the plane driver (radeon + Xinerama) seems to handle everything ok. I just have the two 19" CRT monitors so maybe there is a DVI problem I don't know about but the plane system works just fine for my Samsung 955df/900p system. William Gallafent wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Carlos Carnero wrote: > > > I'm trying to set up my ATi RADEON 9000 PRO, and I'm a little > > confused: should I use the ati or radeon driver for dual-head + > > xinerama? > > They amount to the same thing! The 'ati' driver loads the right driver > for your ati card. So, just use 'ati'; it will load 'radeon' for you. > > As for dual head with xinerama, unfortunately this is not fully > supported in Xfree86 4.3. The reason lies in the inability of the > radeon driver to correctly detect, and configure the card for, a > monitor on the DVI port. You will have to download the source release, > apply a patch, and then recompile. This worked for me. See previous > thread on a similarly named topic for more details. > > The patch is available from: > http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/DRI/radeon-ddc.diff > > If you're familiar with patching and rebuilding from source, this is > fairly straightforward. If not, it will be a bit tricky! > > I would hope that this patch will be in for 4.3.1- but I don't know! > Others on this list (i.e. those that wrote the patch) will have a > better idea! > > HTH, > > -- > Bill Gallafent. > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
