According to the online man page http://wiki.x.org/X11R6.8.0/doc/radeon.4.html for radeon (which should be the driver for that card),
That is the driver named in my xorg.config. And that page is the one I've been referencing to try and manually add in the dual head functionality. Maybe I've got Friday-itus... dunno... but it's not working Anyway in SAX2/YaST it says I can a single vid card, and IDs it as an ATI Radeon VE. I dug around and that seems to match to the Radeon 7000. So, that part is right. I go into the expert config (in SAX2) and there is a dropdown for Primary and Secondary display. There is no "parameter" I can set though (from SAX2) to enable Xinerama or MergedFB (lots of other params). I tried editing the xorg.config file directly and adding in the options as described in the man page, and nothing happens when I restart X... that or it dies completely and I have to recover from my backup file. If I type startx from the command line (after a failed startup), X attempts to launch, and then it dumps back to the command line. Now here's where it really gets fuzzy for me... in the stdout stuff before the error messages, it says "Using /etc/X11/X86Config". Even stranger... when I fire up SAX2 and make some changes and save, it saves to XF86Config... not xorg.config. ??? Huh? This is definitely 9.2 I'm working with... not 9.1. What's up with that? --------------------------------- -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6486 2005-01-28 16:46 XF86Config -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5530 2005-01-28 16:46 XF86Config.backup -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4716 2005-01-27 14:51 XF86Config.install -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5530 2005-01-28 16:40 XF86Config.saxsave -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5530 2005-01-28 16:36 XF86Config.YaST2save -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5530 2005-01-28 15:42 xorg.backup -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6486 2005-01-28 16:44 xorg.config -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5530 2005-01-28 15:44 xorg.config~ -----------------------------
Are both monitors connected? Have you tried changing any of the options under the expert tab for your driver to enable xinerama? AFAIK, this should work "out of the box" with that card. IIRC, I had it working on an 8.2 machine, and I would think if X.org says it is supported, it should work in 9.2.
Definitely connected :-) I have the desktop showing twice... once on the left monitor and once on the right monitor. Can't find the right thing to turn on Xinerama in the SAX Expert options... The card works fine for single display, but definitely did not work "out of the box" for dual display. C.