On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:26 AM, <m.r...@5-cent.us> wrote: > Well, I posted this a week ago. Does *anyone* have any suggestions as to > what I need to do with my xorg.conf to get my user back to normal? > > (And please don't tell me to buy a new card: if you think we can just pop > for one, call your US Congresscritters and tell them to repeal the > Sequester.)
Did you try Dave's suggestion? Does it work correctly using randr before you try the legacy screen based multi-head setup? Alex > > mark > > ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- > Subject: CentOS, radeon driver, dual monitor, fun (NOT) > From: m.r...@5-cent.us > Date: Fri, April 19, 2013 14:56 > To: xorg@lists.x.org > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I've just joined the list in desperation, after days of fighting this. > > The ati & radeon drivers in CentOS (== RHEL) 6.4 are what I need to use, > since neither kmod-fglrx nor the proprietary drivers from AMD/ATI have now > dropped all support for "older" cards. My user has an Advanced Micro > Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV620 [FirePro 2260] card, which is among those no > longer supported (and it was in a machine we got in Nov!). > > Here's the problem: he's got two monitors. Like the rest of us, and as he > was doing, he wants them side-by-side, like one large screen. I've tried > Xorg --configure, which failed, and I've handcrafted some. The two best > I've gotten give us a choice: > a) I can enable xinerama, which I gather is xor with randr. In that > case, we > get what we want... EXCEPT that you can drag things offmonitor. > and if > go a tad too far, what you wind up where you can move it up and > down, > off monitor, but the whole thing moves right, and won't come > back. The > result is an "L" of black; in ascii art, > ________ _________ > |B| | |B| | > |B| | |B| | > |B| | |B| | > |B| | |B| | > |BBBBBBB| |BBBBBBBB| > --------- --------- > b) I can disable xinerama, in which case we can drag the mouse from > monitor to monitor, but once logged in, you cannot drag a *window* > from one to the other, and they seem to almost be like two sessions, > with slightly different menus (he's using gnome; I installed the > gconf-editor, and disabled the xrandr plugin for gnome, so what I > get is all my xorg.conf file. > > The latter xorg.conf is as follows: > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true" > EndSection > <snip> of files, and input device> > Section "Module" > Load "glx" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "mycard0" > Driver "radeon" > BusID "PCI:2:0:0" > Screen 0 > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "mycard1" > Driver "radeon" > BusID "PCI:2:0:0" > Screen 1 > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "mymon0" > Option "Monitor-DisplayPort-0" > Option "Rotate" "left" > # Option "Position" "0 0" > EndSection > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "mymon1" > Option "Monitor-DisplayPort-1" > Option "Rotate" "left" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "myhead0" > Device "mycard0" > Monitor "mymon0" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "1280x1024" > EndSubSection > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "myhead1" > Device "mycard1" > Monitor "mymon1" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "1280x1024" > EndSubSection > EndSection > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "layout0" > InputDevice "keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > InputDevice "mouse0" "CorePointer" > Screen 0 "myhead0" RightOf "myhead1" > Screen 1 "myhead1" > Option "Xinerama" "0" > EndSection > > Any clues for the poor gladly accepted. > > mark > > > > > _______________________________________________ > xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: alexdeuc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
