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PostPosted: Mon, 21st Jun 2004 21:34    Post subject: FreeBSD - XFree86 - Radeon 9800 dual-head
Anyone here using a Radeon 9800 card with multiple monitors on FreeBSD with XFree86?

I can get it to work, but the moment I enable xinerama, the second screen is very ugly. The mouse isnt a mouse, its a big square, whenever i move something to and from that screen it leaves the trails, its not ugly, its unreadable/workable.

My question is, has anyone got a radeon 9xxx card with dual-head working correctly under BSD? Or got tips?
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PostPosted: Mon, 21st Jun 2004 23:32    Post subject:
I am not sure, but maybe this helps:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-October/022170.html
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PostPosted: Wed, 23rd Jun 2004 23:21    Post subject:
Unfortunately that didnt work mate Sad.

I must say its not only with xinerama, its always when enabling dual-head to show different screens... (next to each other for example). Duplicate screens work fine.
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PostPosted: Fri, 25th Jun 2004 22:18    Post subject:
So you can only clone the screen? Anything else doesnt work?
What version of Xfree86 are you using, and what drivers for the gfx card.

Im am currently running FreeBSD 5.1 with a Radeon 9500Pro, but i only
have one monitor, so i cant try it, sorry.
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PostPosted: Sun, 27th Jun 2004 09:56    Post subject:
I was running the latest one, snap 4.3.99 i think it was, and yes I cant do anything else then clone.. anything else just fucks up with the second screen.

I was using ati and radeon (tried both) with and without drm loaded.
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PostPosted: Sun, 27th Jun 2004 14:16    Post subject:
This is just a guess.. From what Ive seen xfree doesnt use duel desktops, it uses horizontal span to increase the desktop res allowing you to use duel screens. Now, ATI does not support horizontal span, not too sure why, but it doesnt.

Sorry I couldnt help fix the problem, but that could be the reason why it isnt working.
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