[ltp] Dual Monitor setup with FireGL on T60p

[Alex Deucher]

On Dec 3, 2007 12:17 AM, Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org> wrote:
> I'm using the fglrx driver on Gutsy and if I disable xgl
> I can plug in a second monitor and restart X and have dual monitors.
> But, they are separate screens and windows cannot be moved between
> the two.
>
> I see the radeon driver has options to run Xinerama-like setup with
> different resolutions on the screens (and to enable hotkeys).
>
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Additional_options_for_the_radeon_driver

most of that has been superseded by xrandr 1.2 support:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2

>
> Not sure if that applies to my card, but I'm curious if anyone can
> explain (or point me to an explanation) of what's possible with the
> FireGL and the fglrx driver to get Xinerama working, and be able to
> switch displays with fn-F7.

As Phil mentioned you can set up multi-head with aticonfig, but if you
want to try the open source driver, Dave and I recently added
r5xx/r6xx support to it.  just grab the atombios-support branch of the
ati driver in git.

Alex