martin f krafft wrote: > I know we're in the middle of a transition from legacy xinerama to > XRandR, but I still think it's a bug if a new version of X breaks > the triple-head setup I have. It may seem that triple-head is mere > geeky joy, but to me it's actually a requirement to get my work > done.
Sure, my mail wasn't meant to tell you to go to hell with your useless triple head :) Given some discussion with upstream, I was just checking whether your problem changed a bit recently. > Given that I don't really like my xorg.conf anyway (it's old) and > really want to move towards XRandR, I then simply removed xorg.conf > and would like to go from here. X comes up, but it only speaks to > one of the two ATI boards, and the screen is mirrored on the two > attached displays. Mirror is the default behavior, it is meant to give you the login window on all monitors so that you can always login with a default config even if some monitors do not work correctly. See III.2 of http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12 for xorg.conf based configuration. Having only one board work is what we need to get fixed... > 1. use xrandr to create screen 2 on the second VGA port of the > PCI:1:0:0 card and to put it right-of screen 1 attached to the > first port. I don't know what output name to use for that. > See above. > 2. somehow teach X about the PCI:0:12:0 card and use xrandr to put > the one display attached to its primary card left-of screen 1. > > Is this possible? > Not sure about that unfortunately. If the driver doesn't even look at board 0:12:0, it doesn't look good. Maybe you need to restore 2 devices sections with the appropriate BusID lines? Not sure whether you need to restore some corresponding Screen and ServerLayout sections... Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
