At 05:03 AM 3/4/2004, Geoffrey wrote:
The one thing I noticed was that when using the ATI tool to build the config file, it did not reference both bus ids.
Seems to be the same thing happening here. It can't match a device for PCI:2:0:0.
Before I purchased this card, I had a Radeon VE which worked with dual head and the config had references to two bus ids. I wonder if their config tool is broken. I attempted to modify the config file by hand to mimic the working one I had for my Radeon VE, but no luck. I've not revisited this of late, but might give it another try noting that you said AT( has released an new driver.
Nice coincidence, I have a Radeon VE in another machine. But I wasn't ever able to get it running with dual-head under Linux either. The installation script for the latest Radeon driver is much improved and offers more options than the last version, but during the course of several reconfigurings, it did seem to be generating faulty or incomplete entries in the XF86Config file.
I don't believe it's necessary to have two servers unless you're planning on running two different instances on each monitor. My attempts are to have a single screen that spans both monitors, is this what you're trying to do, or do you want two separate distinct desktops?
When booting into "that other operating system", I usually have my Radeon in extended desktop mode (but sans Hydravision) so I can drag stuff between my two SVGA monitors as if the desktop were displayed on a very wide single monitor. I don't think I'll ever need to use two distinct desktops, and I don't care much about being able to use cloned mode either. So yeah, it appears we're after the same configuration here.