Re: [LUG] DualHead Monitor Support On Ubuntu 5.10 (Ati)

[Simon Williams <systemparadox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ruairi Fullam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed the Ati Radeon 9550 glx drivers as described in the 
> Ubuntu wiki and I'd like to enable my second monitor - although I'm 
> unsure of how to edit the Xorg config properly as the card has two 
> output ports and most of the guides I see involve having two seperate 
> cards. I don't mind doing a bit of config editing!
>
> GLX acceleration is working for the record.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
>
> Ruairi Fullam
>
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I cannot for the life of me get GLX/DRI working on my SuperSavage. I 
have managed to get xinerama dualscreen working though.

Some pointers:
Xinerama- join two screens together in software
MergedFB- If you have DRI, you can use this to merge the two screens 
more transparently. This mode also supports xrandr, so you can setup 
dynamic configs with this. See:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Monitors
and
http://ozlabs.org/~jk/docs/mergefb/

Please let me know how you get on. I have a xinerama config for my 
savage if you would like.

Hope this helps
Simon


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