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Re: fglrx and dual monitor



Am Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:58:15 +0100
schrieb kj <koffiejunkielistlurker@koffiejunkie.za.net>:

> Richard Hector wrote:
> > My work machine has an HD 2600 XT, and works ok (not flawlessly -
> > the mouse pointer sometimes screws up a bit) with the free radeon
> > driver - and it claims to support the HD 2400 XT too. It did take a
> > bit of fiddling around with the config to make it go, though. I'm
> > using dual screens, with xrandr - it's quite cool, I can rotate one
> > of my screens for portrait mode when I like :-)
> >
> > Richard
> >   
> Hi Richard,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.  I am using the radeonhd driver at the moment, 
> but it has no acceleration at all:
> 
> (WW) RADEONHD(0): RV610: HW 2D acceleration is not implemented yet.
> (WW) RADEONHD(0): Option "DRI" is not used

Have you tried the radeon driver? At least the version in git supports
2D acceleration and Xv with my HD 3450. For 3D we'll probably have to
wait for the next mesa version after the will-be-soon-released 7.5.

If you use lenny, trying radeon is probably the only option.

> 3D/DRI I can live without, but 2D acceleration is really hard to work 
> without.
> 
> I'll keep hacking at it :)
> 
> -kj

Andreas

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