[F9] radeon dual-head display w/Xinerama

Sean Bruno sean.bruno at dsl-only.net
Sun Aug 17 18:15:04 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 17:53 +0000, Peter Boy wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 16.08.2008, 10:12 -0700 schrieb Sean Bruno:
> > The desktop area for each monitor, is somehow exceeding the displayable
> > area(I have to move the mouse to the edge of the monitor to make the
> > desktop scroll over to the rest of the desktop).  This only shows up in
> > a dual head configuration.  If I simply comment out the second display,
> > my primary display is sized correctly and all is well.  
> > ....
> > Help?
> 
> 
> When I updated to F9 I had some probs with my ati dual head card. My
> conf file is:
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
> 	Identifier     "ATI dual head configuration"
> 	Screen      0  "Default Screen" 0 0
> 	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> 	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
So, Xinerama just doesn't work with the radeon driver any more?  Or was
it just pure luck that it worked at all before?

> Especially important is the "Virtual" option in section "Screen".
> 
> You may check for a ~/.gnome2/monitors.xml file and remove / rename it
> and check. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457673 
> 

Nope, not present on my system.  So this isn't my issue.  

Sean




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