Re: xinerama portrait

[Alex Deucher <agd5f yahoo com>]

matrox g450 or g550.  I have a g550 it the output is great.  I had a
g400 before that and it too looked good.

Alex

--- Barry Warsaw <barry python org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 19:45, noneedforemail alssi com wrote:
> > I have a radeon 7000 dual head attached to two 15" LCD's.  I want
> to use 
> > them both in "portrait" mode (randr).  When using xinerama, if I
> try to run 
> > xrandr, I get the error message "extension 'randr' missing on
> display 
> > ':0.0'."  Any clue how to get this working?  Keep in mind that I
> have a 
> > radeon, so I'm not even sure if the drivers support randr.  Thanks.
> 
> > 
> >  --Andrew Schwartz
> 
> Andrew, how's the image quality on your two LCDs?  I'm driving two
> Dell
> E171FP panels from a single Radeon 7500 card.  The monitors are
> analog
> and I've got a DVI->VGA adaptor on one of the ports.
> 
> I ask because -- despite the current brokenness of always-on clone
> mode
> -- the image quality has always been poor, even under XF 4.2.  In a
> nutshell, the DVI->VGA panel is fuzzy and the VGA panel has tons of
> ghost lines and other image instabilities.  Not to mention
> positioning
> problems on both heads.
> 
> I know this is not a panel h/w problem because I can drive the same
> monitors from a Radeon 8500 Mac card on my OSX box and they look
> wonderful.  I'm still suspecting the Radeon driver under XFree86.
> 
> On a tangent: the various problems I'm having with the Radeon h/w
> under
> XFree86 are making my Linux desktop experience too depressing.  Can
> anyone recommend a good dual-head card that is well supported by
> XFree86
> 4.3, that can drive two VGA flat panels, and that costs no more than
> about $150?  I don't care about gaming, i just need a good s/w
> development platform (i.e. look real nice for text).
> 
> Cheers,
> -Barry
> 
> 
> 
> 
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