On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:49:10 -0600, Joe Morris (NTM) <Joe_Morris@ntm.org> wrote:
Clayton Cornell wrote:
Has anyone tried using fglrxconfig on an ATI Radeon 7000? I've been poking around trying to find ways to make the multihead part of the card work (using SuSE9.2), and everything I have found so far seem to point to fglrxconfig and needing a newer video card :-(
A newer card isn't really much of an option since this is my work computer.
So.. anyone have any suggestions? Is it a lost cause to try to get dualhead working on this older ATI card in SuSE9.2? That card should be fully supported by the open source driver, no need for the fglrx binary driver. Doesn't sax2 set it up? Where does it fail? --
It is working in normal mode. I want MultiHead to work though. I have the convenience of having 2 monitors on my desk here at work. I use/need the extra desktop realestate for my work. (I hate saying this, but when I was working on Windows I used the DualHead thing all the time) Now I've converted 100% to Linux, and miss my 2 monitor thing. I've mucked about with the stuff I found in the DRI Wiki, and just managed to screw up X. But.. I made a backup :-) SO I'm back in my old config again.. it works, but no dual head. SAX2 says that my video card (ATI Radeon 7000 with 2 standard monitor out connections) isn't capable of multihead - even though it is.