[ltp] Thinkpad R51 multihead support

Alex Deucher linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:15:59 -0500


On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:04:42 -0800 (PST), Anthony James
<aj_nai@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> has anyone been successful in getting multihead to
> work on Suse with an IBM Thinkpad R51 model 1836-BAU
> which uses an embedded ATI Radeon 7500 series chipset.
>  I see that ATI doesn't have linux drivers for
> anything  less than the Radeon 8500 series.
> 

Should work fine with the radeon driver in xfree86 or xorg.  a certain
degree of tweaking may be required dependign on your setup.  Xorg
6.8.x also supports mergedfb mode.

Alex