Re: xscreensaver problems on dual monitors

[John Baab <john dot baab at gmail dot com>]

As far as I know this is how it works, xinerama features are not fully
functional in the ATI drivers.  I did some reasearch when I first
installed my ATI drivers and found that there was no fix for it, this
was quite a few months ago.  I can tell you that I am still getting
the same results with xorg.  Maximizing a video to both monitors
should also only disply on a single monitor, at least thats what mine
does.

-John

On 8/14/05, Greg Vickers <g dot vickers at qut dot edu dot au> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got flavio's fglrx driver working OK under Debian stable, but when
> xscreensaver kicks on, the screensaver is only displayed on the primary
> monitor!
>
> It's a bit bizarre, because both screens are faded out, once the fade
> completes, the right side (secondary monitor) displays the desktop
> again! (this is an active display, if something changes in a window on
> that display, it is shown while xscreensaver does its thing on the left
> monitor)
>
> Has anyone experienced this problem and has a fix for me, or does anyone
> have any suggestions? (XFree86 config file attached)
>
> lspci says:
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown
> device 5b62
> 0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5b72
>
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