Is there any driver for Radeon 9600XT fo XWindows?
When I try to set up radeon driver in X configuration it freezes. Autodetect
detects vesa driver.
Thank you for your help.
Ales
- Original Message -
From: "Alex Deucher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 3:29 PM
Subject: [XFree86] Radeon 9200: DRI on one head and 2d on second head ?
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> >
> >Hello
> >
> >I'm trying to setup an ATI Redeon 9200 card for a multimedia PC.
> >
> >The goal is to be able to connect a video projector on the DVI head
> >(screen 1) and the monitor on the main head (screen 0). And my kid
> >would be rather disapointed if he can no longer play with gltron on
> >the main screen, so I need a working DRI on the main head.
> >
> >With Xfree 4.3.0, I am able to setup DRI on one head, *or* set up a
> >dual head (2 screens setup).
> >
> >But in the latter case, the DRI is disabled: Radeon driver does not
> >support DRI with dual head setup even if the NoAccel option is set in
> >the second Device.
> >
> >IS this statement correct or did I miss something ?
>
> In the xfree86 4.3/4.4 radeon driver you can't mix DRI and dualhead.
> It may work without xinerama, depends what you are doing.
>
> >
> >So I was considering to set up a single head configuration for X on
> >the main head and set up a frame buffer on the second head.
> >
> >Thus I could use directly the -vo fbdev and display the video directly
> >on the second head without going through X.
> >
> >Is that possible ? (OK, I'm drifting off-topic)
> >
> >Does anyone have a pointer and how to set up a radeon frame buffer on
> >the second head ?
>
> AFAIK, the radeonfb kernel driver does not support multiple heads yet.
>
> >
> >Thanks for any help.
>
> It sounds like what you may want is my radeon driver with mergedfb
> support. It uses each crtc as a viewport into a single shared
> framebuffer so the DRI works on both heads:
> http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/MergedFB
>
> Alex
>
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