[ltp] Re: Radeon and 1680x1050

[Rolf Leggewie]

Alex Deucher wrote:
>> It is permanent.  The external screen keeps the higher color setting
>> where the internal screen looses some color detail.

> I suspect one the CLUT is not being restore properly for crtc1 so the
> palette is wrong.  Can you file a bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org?

Sure. http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11230

> Sure it does.  dis-similar head sizes have been supported since the
> beginning.  you can either have the heads scroll or set the
> non-rectangular option and they will stay at fixed offsets.

Yes, the scroll thing I knew about.  But that was really not what I
wanted.  The non-rectangular option and its function are new to me.
I'll try it out.  So are there any advantages of Xinerama over MergedFB?
 I can't see any.

> So you'd like bottom rather than top alignment?  That can be achieved
> with the offset option I mentioned before.  However, with that
> enabled, you will get the current behavior at the top.


Exactly, I'd like not to have it on either end.  But it is only a minor
nuisance.  One that I can certainly live with.