Re: Help with X using ATI pci card?
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:17, W. Crowshaw wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:28:46PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 23:17, William Crowshaw wrote:
> > >
> > > I would really like to get 2 monitors going [...]
> >
> > The atimisc driver doesn't support this yet.
> >
> Yep, I know. The card docs say that this is
> impossible as well. No, I had intended to run
> monitor off of /chaos/control (the 7500 built in
> video) and the other, larger, monitor over the ati
> card.
This might work, using the fbdev driver for the control.
> Additionally, I thought I would say that, even
> though I cannot get a console or a X session using
> this ati connected to my Dell monitor, this isn't
> a problem with the card itself because 1) it behaves
> great on the MacOS and 2) I have three of these
> cards and they all behave the same way on X.
>
> Any ideas, or should I just sell the cards on e-bay?
I'd try a newer XFree86 version first.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
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