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Bug#443122: xserver-xorg-video-ati: dualhead setup not possible with xrandr1.2



On Freitag, 2. November 2007, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > - most importantly: I can't start either XFC4 or KDE3 session from
> > that xterm or from kdm. As soon as they're up and running the 2nd
> > head is switched off and when I set a mode on it again and then use
> >
> > xrandr --output VGA-0 --left-of LVDS
> >
> > to put it on the left side of the lvds, but that just makes the
> > whole screen go blank :( Maybe this is a xfce/kde issue?
>
> If starting with KDE/XFC works fine on both heads, I would guess that
> KDE/XFC does some incorrect RandR 1.2 calls at startup. It is hard to
> be sure. Did you check in the corresponding KDE/XFC configuration
> utilities?

I'd like to add that the display doesn't always go blank when running 
xrandr --left-of, sometimes it just creates garbage on the 2nd head.

Bugreport for that is here:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13068

Andreas

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