Radeon SurroundView support?

Dave Airlie airlied at redhat.com
Thu Feb 18 02:59:12 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 18:40 -0700, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering about state of Radeon SurroundView support in Fedora. I tried to get it working 
> couple of months ago with 4670 + IGP 790GX and even got the X server start with 3 displays but 
> neither Gnome nor KDE window manager knew how to handle it properly. Basically, no window could have 
> been moved to the third display so apart of displaying blue background the third screen was kinda 
> useless.
> 
> In addition, mouse pointer transitions between second and third display were curious to say the 
> least. The cursor moved nicely from first to second to third display but when going back it showed 
> up on the first screen...
> 
> I got to that point setting up hand crafted xorg.conf. Is there any work or testing being done on 
> supporting multi-monitor setups (as in: more than 2 screens)? Perhaps I have gotten something wrong?

the 3rd screen is probably a second X screen which means you would need
to send windows to DISPLAY=:0.1

I'm surprised gnome/kde don't start up a panel etc on it.

The geometry fixing is in progress so the mouse does the right thing at
least I think ajax's work might fix it.

Dave.




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