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Re: Best supported and rendering card



With my configuration I have DRI enabled and 3d support on both screens. The only bug I've found is that on the second screen every fullscreen application (like frozen-bubble or supertux in fullscreen mode) cause Xorg to segfault. Windowed 3d on the second screen works well. The first screen works like in single head. I use 8.14.13 drivers, I can't use the latest version. 8.16.20 just hangs with every configuration.
My card is a Mobility Radeon 9700.
Bye

John Baab ha scritto:

On 9/29/05, *EmIscA* <emisca at rocketmail dot com <mailto:emisca at rocketmail dot com>> wrote:

    Are you using multimonitor mode (a desktop and kicker bar for each
    monitor)?
    I have some problems with window managers (I tried kde 3.3.2,
    gnome 2.8 and 2.10). Now I use kde which is the best compromise.
    Perhaps, the second screen has desktop ans kicker not localized,
    and icons don't maintain the same ordering and position when I
    restart KDE... If I copy with konqueror some files the status
    window is displayed in the other monitor.
    Gnome has problems with the second systray and many little bugs..
    Another thing is that you can't migrate a window to the other
    screen in any way.. or I don't know how. Does anybody know how?


I am using "big desktop" mode (or something along the lines of that) and gnome. Basically I have 2 panels streatching across the top and bottom of the sreens, the same panels cover both screens. Then I can drag and drop between the screens, but I run into the problems that I described above where windows like to fill both screens but can only render on one. I believe with your setup you are actually running 2 seperate xwindows sessions, and they cannot interact with each other, which is why you cannot drag between the 2. A cross between the multimonitor mode and big desktop mode would leave us with something similiar to xinerama, which would be nice, but unfortunatly your stuck with a choice between the 2, or giing with xinerama and leaving behind 3D support.

BTW the ati config script works well with my dual monitor setup, I just answer the questions it asks and it works out of the box.

-John