[ltp] Confusion about Xorg drivers

[John Locke]

Hello,

I have a T41, with a Radeon Mobility 9000 card. I'm running Mandrake 
10.1 (actually still on the Community version). By running glxgears, I'm 
getting 140 fps.

I've made tweaks in my XF86config file in the past, on my old Toshiba, 
and managed to get XFree86 to work dual head, but I really get lost in 
these configurations. At that time, I learned a bit about Nvidia 
drivers, enough to get it going, but now with ATI I'm totally lost. I 
don't care much about 3d performance or anything, but here's what I want 
to be able to do:

* Run multimonitor, preferably being able to use xrandr and being able 
to turn the external monitor on and off without restarting X. Right now, 
my LCD is 1400x1050, but my external monitor is a 1024x768 flat panel.

* I would like to be able to stretch my desktop across to the other 
screen, side by side, as well as hook up an external projector for 
presentations.

* I would also like to be able to plug my TV into the S-Video port and 
output media to my TV.

* Finally, I'd like to enable the DRI extension so that I can get 
full-screen out of VMWare.

I've seen lots of pages with different How-tos to do much of this, but 
I'm stuck with choosing a driver and getting the proper modelines--there 
appear to be at least 3 different drivers for this card available in my 
distribution, and I really haven't had time to dig through all these issues.

Is there any quick summary of the available drivers for this card 
somewhere that can get me going? Anybody happen to have an xorg.conf 
file that matches my needs?

Thanks for your help!

Cheers,

-- 
John Locke
"Open Source Solutions for Small Business Problems"
published by Charles River Media, June 2004
http://www.freelock.com