From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 17 08:47:54 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0DFF16A420 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:47:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamk@voicenet.com) Received: from b.mx.visualtech.com (b.mx.visualtech.com [208.16.19.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08DA313C4CA for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:47:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamk@voicenet.com) Received: from [192.168.0.101] (c-68-45-180-45.hsd1.nj.comcast.net [68.45.180.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b.mx.visualtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B39DD486A6; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:28:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam K Kirchhoff To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:23:29 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200709170410.l8H4AeR9014773@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <200709170410.l8H4AeR9014773@aldan.algebra.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709170423.30038.adamk@voicenet.com> Cc: anholt@freebsd.com, alex@botch2.com, x11@freebsd.org, "Mikhail T." Subject: Re: xf86-video-ati upgrade fiasco X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:47:54 -0000 xrandr has now superseded mergedfb.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 > Date: Sun May 13 18:14:29 2007 -0400 > > RADEON: remove mergedfb, etc. cruft from man page > > commit 51caa5dccc4a2e14d1b41bb7868ad20468dd4cfe > Author: Alex Deucher > 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 > 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