Help with Dual Heads on a Radeon 9200

[Joel Goguen]

Try the thread below.  If that doesn't work I'll poke around and see if
I can get a working xorg.conf hacked together :)

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=22496&highlight=xinerama+radeon


On Wed, 2005-15-06 at 03:06 -0700, Robert Johnson wrote:
> Help!, for the longest time I thought it was impossible to get Dual
> Heads working on my 9200SE, until I sat down and read the man page for
> radeon, I then hit google and found
> thishttp://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-22412.html which seems
> to give me a good start, now, I have dual heads sorta working on one
> card, the issue right now is overlap, there is half a screen of overlap
> on the second screen from the first one, so wise Ubuntu users.. can
> someone please tell me what im missing?
> 
> 
> Section "Files"
> 	FontPath	"unix/:7100"			# local font server
> 	# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
>         # paths to defoma fonts
> 	FontPath	"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
> 	FontPath	"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Module"
> 	Load	"bitmap"
> 	Load	"dbe"
> 	Load	"ddc"
> 	Load	"dri"
> 	Load	"extmod"
> 	Load	"freetype"
> 	Load	"glx"
> 	Load	"int10"
> 	Load	"record"
> 	Load	"type1"
> 	Load	"vbe"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
> 	Driver		"keyboard"
> 	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
> 	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
> 	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc101"
> 	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
> 	Driver		"mouse"
> 	Option		"CorePointer"
> 	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
> 	Option		"Protocol"		"ImPS/2"
> 	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
> 	Option		"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "DELL M782"
> HorizSync	30-95
> VertRefresh	48-160
> Option "DPMS"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 9200 SE (RV280) MergedFB"
> Driver "radeon"
> VendorName "ATI"
> BoardName "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 9200 SE (RV280)"
> BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
> Option "MergedFB" "True"
> Option "CRT2HSync" "31.5-85.5"
> Option "CRT2VRefresh" "60"
> Option "MonitorLayout" "LCD, CRT" #use LCD,CRT even if you have 2 CRTs
> Option "MergedXineramaCRT2IsScreen0" "false"
> Option "OverlayOnCRTC2" "true"
> # Option "MetaModes" "1600x1200-1400x1050" #Commented out because it 
> # Generates an error
> Option "CRT2Position" "RightOf"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "MergedFB Screen"
> Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon 9200 SE (RV280) MergedFB"
> Monitor "DELL M782"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
> Virtual 2800 1050
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Default Layout"
> Screen "MergedFB Screen"
> InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
> InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "DRI"
> 	Mode	0666
> EndSection
> 
> 
> 

--
Joel Goguen
ITS Student Consultant
Bachelor of Computer Science III
University of New Brunswick