[ILUG] [comp.os.linux.hardware] Graphics card fully supported by Open Source drivers!

[Liam Bedford]

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 12:22 +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> On 30 Nov 2004, at 12:07, Liam Bedford wrote:
> 
> >> I have a Radeon 9200. I have been led to believe that I can only get
> >> dual head support by using ATI's binary module, and since I installed
> >> it, my secondary screen has lain mute beside me. Can you provide an
> >> example X config to get that working dual head with xorg 6.8.1 ?
> >>
> >>
> > I don't have a 9xxx to test with, but the 7500 in this machine turns up
> > as two seperate PCI devices. One for each head. what does lspci say to
> > you?
> 
> lspci says this:
> 
> 
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 
> [Radeon 9200] (rev 01)
> 0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 
> 9200] (Secondary) (rev 01)
> 
> and somebody said to me that all I need is another   Section "Device"   
> and another   Section "Screen"   in my XF86Config to handle that, but I 
> did that, and it doesn't work.
> 
> It is ENTIRELY possible that I have done that wrongly of course, or 
> that there is a bit missing somewhere.
> 
and you then added something like:
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        Screen      1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

?

Regards
L.
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