Well, I posted this a week ago. Does *anyone* have any suggestions as to what I need to do with my xorg.conf to get my user back to normal?
(And please don't tell me to buy a new card: if you think we can just pop for one, call your US Congresscritters and tell them to repeal the Sequester.) mark ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: CentOS, radeon driver, dual monitor, fun (NOT) From: m.r...@5-cent.us Date: Fri, April 19, 2013 14:56 To: xorg@lists.x.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've just joined the list in desperation, after days of fighting this. The ati & radeon drivers in CentOS (== RHEL) 6.4 are what I need to use, since neither kmod-fglrx nor the proprietary drivers from AMD/ATI have now dropped all support for "older" cards. My user has an Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV620 [FirePro 2260] card, which is among those no longer supported (and it was in a machine we got in Nov!). Here's the problem: he's got two monitors. Like the rest of us, and as he was doing, he wants them side-by-side, like one large screen. I've tried Xorg --configure, which failed, and I've handcrafted some. The two best I've gotten give us a choice: a) I can enable xinerama, which I gather is xor with randr. In that case, we get what we want... EXCEPT that you can drag things offmonitor. and if go a tad too far, what you wind up where you can move it up and down, off monitor, but the whole thing moves right, and won't come back. The result is an "L" of black; in ascii art, ________ _________ |B| | |B| | |B| | |B| | |B| | |B| | |B| | |B| | |BBBBBBB| |BBBBBBBB| --------- --------- b) I can disable xinerama, in which case we can drag the mouse from monitor to monitor, but once logged in, you cannot drag a *window* from one to the other, and they seem to almost be like two sessions, with slightly different menus (he's using gnome; I installed the gconf-editor, and disabled the xrandr plugin for gnome, so what I get is all my xorg.conf file. The latter xorg.conf is as follows: Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true" EndSection <snip> of files, and input device> Section "Module" Load "glx" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "mycard0" Driver "radeon" BusID "PCI:2:0:0" Screen 0 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "mycard1" Driver "radeon" BusID "PCI:2:0:0" Screen 1 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "mymon0" Option "Monitor-DisplayPort-0" Option "Rotate" "left" # Option "Position" "0 0" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "mymon1" Option "Monitor-DisplayPort-1" Option "Rotate" "left" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "myhead0" Device "mycard0" Monitor "mymon0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "myhead1" Device "mycard1" Monitor "mymon1" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout0" InputDevice "keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "mouse0" "CorePointer" Screen 0 "myhead0" RightOf "myhead1" Screen 1 "myhead1" Option "Xinerama" "0" EndSection Any clues for the poor gladly accepted. mark _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com