Re: fglrx and dual monitor

2009-06-30 Thread Andreas Juch
Am Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:58:15 +0100 schrieb kj : > Richard Hector wrote: > > My work machine has an HD 2600 XT, and works ok (not flawlessly - > > the mouse pointer sometimes screws up a bit) with the free radeon > > driver - and it claims to support the HD 2400 XT too. It did take a > > bit of fid

Re: fglrx and dual monitor

2009-06-30 Thread kj
Richard Hector wrote: My work machine has an HD 2600 XT, and works ok (not flawlessly - the mouse pointer sometimes screws up a bit) with the free radeon driver - and it claims to support the HD 2400 XT too. It did take a bit of fiddling around with the config to make it go, though. I'm using dua

Re: fglrx and dual monitor

2009-06-29 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 18:43 +0100, kj wrote: > Well, I used to have a Radeon 7000, which was fully supported under X, > and that worked beautifully, until they came up with this randr stuff, > and threw out support for dual screens on the radeon driver without > providing a working alternative

Re: fglrx and dual monitor

2009-06-29 Thread kj
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: I gave up on a similar endeavour when lenny was testing. ATI's proprietary drivers are a mess for those kind of things -- or at least were the last time I tried. I had it partially working for some time with only minor artifacts and troubles, when a new update of the ke

Re: fglrx and dual monitor

2009-06-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
kj wrote: > Is anyone here running a dual screen (one big desktop) with the fglrx > driver? I'm having a wild time trying to make this work with an ATI HD > 2400 XT card on Squeeze. I gave up on a similar endeavour when lenny was testing. ATI's proprietary drivers are a mess for those kind of thi