Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:23:29 -0400 From: Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Cc: anholt@freebsd.com, alex@botch2.com, x11@freebsd.org, "Mikhail T." <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Subject: Re: xf86-video-ati upgrade fiasco Message-ID: <200709170423.30038.adamk@voicenet.com> In-Reply-To: <200709170410.l8H4AeR9014773@aldan.algebra.com> References: <200709170410.l8H4AeR9014773@aldan.algebra.com>
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xrandr has now superseded mergedfb. You should, theoretically, just be able to enable and setup your second monitor with the xrandr command. I suggest taking a look at the xrandr man page. It can be a bit tricky to understand, though. Unfortunately, xrandr is some what broken for me with the radeon driver in the ports tree, as I mentioned in a previous e-mail just a few days ago. It was convinced I had a TV hooked up to S-Video (which I didn't) and refused to enable my second monitor. As soon as I upgpraded to the driver currently in freedesktop git, it worked fine. Adam On Monday 17 September 2007 00:10:40 Mikhail T. wrote: > Hello! > > Expecting the new radeon-driver to be more robust I went ahead and > upgraded to 6.7.192. > > Much to my disappointment, the new X-sessions no longer recognized my > second monitor. > > The newly installed radeon(4x) did not even mention the MergedFB option, > which I used for quite a while until today. Not only did the option > "just work", it was /the/ recommended way to a dual-head setup. > > Looking into the ChangeLog, I found, that Alex removed the option > completely on May 8th and 13th: > > commit e60a7bcaf5611ad4706b1d1442ce4cae49145f42 > Author: Alex Deucher <alex@t41p.hsd1.va.comcast.net> > Date: Sun May 13 18:14:29 2007 -0400 > > RADEON: remove mergedfb, etc. cruft from man page > > commit 51caa5dccc4a2e14d1b41bb7868ad20468dd4cfe > Author: Alex Deucher <alex@t41p.hsd1.va.comcast.net> > Date: Sun May 13 18:10:02 2007 -0400 > > RADEON: remove old mergedfb and dualhead options that > are no longer used > > commit 03860fed24b4f76cc7f1f4210ec8f8040fa04777 > Author: Alex Deucher <alex@t41p.hsd1.va.comcast.net> > Date: Tue May 8 19:27:48 2007 +0200 > > remove some old mergedfb cruft > > The wisdom of removing the previously-recommended option aside (without > so much as a manual-page description of the alternative), WHAT is the > way to the dual head setup now? > > Google-ing seems to bring up only the questions and recipies for > ATI's own fxgl-driver... I'm attaching my current Xorg.0.log -- the > junk in the "TMDS type" is troubling. > > Please, advise. Thanks! > > -mi
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