[F9] radeon dual-head display w/Xinerama
Sean Bruno
sean.bruno at dsl-only.net
Tue Aug 19 02:27:31 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
>
> ... (modules, keyboard, etc)
>
> Section "Device"
>
> Identifier "ATI Radeon"
> Driver "radeon"
> VendorName "ATI corp."
> BoardName "ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]"
> BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
> # Option "AGPFastWrite" "on"
> # Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
> Option "Monitor-DVI-0" "Panel-0"
> Option "Monitor-DVI-1" "Panel-1"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>
> Identifier "Panel-1"
> VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
> ModelName "NEC MultiSync LCD1700NX (Digital)"
> # Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
> # HorizSync 31.0 - 68.0
> # VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
> # DisplaySize 340 270
> Option "dpms"
> # Option "LeftOf" "Panel-0"
> # Option "Ignore" "true"
>
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>
> Identifier "Panel-0"
> VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
> ModelName "NEC MultiSync LCD1700NX (Digital)"
> # Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
> # HorizSync 31.0 - 68.0
> # VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
> Option "dpms"
> Option "RightOf" "Panel-1"
>
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> Device "ATI Radeon"
> Monitor "Panel-1"
> DefaultDepth 24
>
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 24
> # big virtual screen to place the monitors
> Virtual 2560 1024
> # Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
>
> EndSection
>
>
> 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
>
>
> Peter
>
>
>
Thanks for the insight. I came up with the following xorg.conf that
allows me to run dual screens again!
Sean
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# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
Screen 0
Option "Monitor-DVI-0" "Monitor0"
Option "Monitor-VGA-0" "Monitor1"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1600x1200"
HorizSync 31.5 - 74.7
VertRefresh 56.0 - 65.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1600x1200"
HorizSync 31.5 - 74.7
VertRefresh 56.0 - 65.0
Option "dpms"
Option "RightOf" "Monitor0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor 0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
#Virtual "2560x1024"
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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