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{ 2006 05 20 }

dual-head huzzah!

I had thought that I wasn’t going to be able to get the dual-headed display working with this ati chipset, but a helpful #trilug denizen pointed me in the right direction. Now I’ve got two monitors running something like xinerama. Total screen is 2048×768.

lspci lists: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01)

But the box says it’s an RX9250. Either way, the key stanza looks to have been:

Section "Device"
Identifier	"ATI Technologies, Inc. RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO]”
Driver		“radeon”
Option		“MergedFB” “true”
Option		“CRT2Position” “LeftOf”
BusID		“PCI:1:0:0″
EndSection

See the complete xorg.conf at http://tarheelcoxn.homelinux.net/xorg.conf

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Posted by tarheelcoxn on Saturday, May 20, 2006, at 23:20 America/New_York. Filed under work/web. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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