On Apr 4, 2005 5:58 PM, Robert G. Hays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for the reply! > > The problem is to date, I cannot get Xorg to go to a higher resolution > than 640x480, and only acknolwedges one of the two monitors (uselessly > duplicates teh one monitor onto the other, which is the power-on default > for the card. > > I was trying to find any such while running Gentoo, but no framebeffer, > either, and so far Gentoo does not like my ps/2 trackbball-mouse, so I > had no luck. Today I have booted Win98SE, and am just about to go > looking again where I can *see* something besides all those lovely > serifs in 80x25 mode. And I have spent the last 7, repeat, *seven* > entire days trying to get Gentoo installed. > > What I need is 10x7 + 10x7, or better yet 12x10 + 10x7, either as one > large desltop or as two separate desktops, preferrably switchable by > momentarily zapping X & issuing one command from the tt, probably just > swappping between two X*.conf's. > > I did try the Gentoo fglrx driver & config, but after emerging it, I > found out that this is still Xfree86-only, so I can't use it under Xorg.
I don't know why you think this...the fglrx and config program work fine for xorg since a little while ago. The first version I used I had to change some conf settings (found on a howto), but the latest version I had installed created a conf that worked fine in xorg. Did you try ~x86? Also, I noticed that switching between the conf files didn't seem to work. I think the config program may make some other changes (perhaps some /proc stuff?) which forced me to re-run the config program if I wanted to change my configuration. > > So, I need a full-feature driver that runs under Xorg, or I need the > Xfree86 system installed. > > Any thoughts? > > Thansk, > rgh. > > (And I am *very* computer knowledgeable, and a professional programmer > for ~18 years. I can usually do anything needed by myself. But let's > just say that I found a lot of things to fix to install Gentoo. Why? I > don't know, but I did create fixes for all up to here so far. Which is > by way of explaining why I was 'shouting'. If I can ever get Gentoo > working to my needs, it looks to be the greatest thing since sliced > bread, but meanwhile, I am getting a little behind in my income, and I > can't afford much more of this; and I am just about to have to give up > on linux & go back to Windows, which crashes about ever 30 minutes, and > *hope* that I can install yet more software so I can do this new project.) > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Justin Patrin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
