[ltp] Help Please - MergedFB with xorg radeon driver has bad vertical resolution on second head

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:11:52 -0500, morpheus <morpheus@post.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Thanks so much. When I read the man page for radeon, it didn't seem
> possible that you could have two different dimensioned displays, since
> it's one framebuffer with two viewports, but I thought I recalled
> someone on this list saying you could control the resolution of both
> displays independently, so I thought I was doing something wrong...
> 
> Well, I do like the advantages of MergedFB over xinerama, but
> unfortunately it is pretty annoying to have to move the mouse off the
> edge to scroll the screen up and down.  So, I guess I need to stick with
> xinerama...
> 

There are several patches floating around to prevent the viewport from
moving and I may end up implementing something like that at some
point, but the problem is, there is no way I know of to prevent the
mouse from moving into the dead space and non-xinerama aware apps/wms
can potentially place windows there as well.

Alex

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