[ltp] Explore radeon(4) features, especially mergedfb and Metamodes.

[Stefan Schmidt]

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Hello.

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 02:04, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 09:59:36PM +0200, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> >=20
> > The last days i found some time to play around with the settings of the
> > radeon driver. I focused on two goals here:
> >=20
> > 1. Improve the handling of an external LCD or beamer via vga. Especially
> > "hotplug" teh monitor after X is already started. Also ynamically
> > switching between clone mode and mergedfb pseudo-Xinerama. Of course
> > with different resolutions. 1400x1050 on the internal LCD and mostly
> > 1280x1024 on the external one.
>=20
> Could you post your config ? I'm trying to get a 1400x1050 resolution=20
> on the LCD panel and 1280x1024 on the external vga but I've been=20
> unsuccesful until now.

With mergedfb? This Metamodes should do the trick:

Option          "MetaModes" "1400x1050-1280x1024"

You can find my xorg.conf here:

http://www.datenfreihafen.org/~stefan/tmp/xorg.conf

regards
Stefan Schmidt

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