xf86-video-ati upgrade fiasco

[Adam K Kirchhoff]

xrandr has now superseded mergedfb.  You should, theoretically, just be able 
to enable and setup your second monitor with the xrandr command.  I suggest 
taking a look at the xrandr man page.  It can be a bit tricky to understand, 
though.

Unfortunately, xrandr is some what broken for me with the radeon driver in the 
ports tree, as I mentioned in a previous e-mail just a few days ago.  It was 
convinced I had a TV hooked up to S-Video (which I didn't) and refused to 
enable my second monitor.  As soon as I upgpraded to the driver currently in 
freedesktop git, it worked fine.

Adam

On Monday 17 September 2007 00:10:40 Mikhail T. wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Expecting the new radeon-driver to be more robust I went ahead and
> upgraded to 6.7.192.
>
> Much to my disappointment, the new X-sessions no longer recognized my
> second monitor.
>
> The newly installed radeon(4x) did not even mention the MergedFB option,
> which I used for quite a while until today. Not only did the option
> "just work", it was /the/ recommended way to a dual-head setup.
>
> Looking into the ChangeLog, I found, that Alex removed the option
> completely on May 8th and 13th:
>
> 	commit e60a7bcaf5611ad4706b1d1442ce4cae49145f42
> 	Author: Alex Deucher <alex at t41p.hsd1.va.comcast.net>
> 	Date:   Sun May 13 18:14:29 2007 -0400
>
> 	    RADEON: remove mergedfb, etc. cruft from man page
>
> 	commit 51caa5dccc4a2e14d1b41bb7868ad20468dd4cfe
> 	Author: Alex Deucher <alex at t41p.hsd1.va.comcast.net>
> 	Date:   Sun May 13 18:10:02 2007 -0400
>
> 	    RADEON: remove old mergedfb and dualhead options that
> 		are no longer used
>
> 	commit 03860fed24b4f76cc7f1f4210ec8f8040fa04777
> 	Author: Alex Deucher <alex at t41p.hsd1.va.comcast.net>
> 	Date:   Tue May 8 19:27:48 2007 +0200
>
> 	    remove some old mergedfb cruft
>
> The wisdom of removing the previously-recommended option aside (without
> so much as a manual-page description of the alternative), WHAT is the
> way to the dual head setup now?
>
> Google-ing seems to bring up only the questions and recipies for
> ATI's own fxgl-driver... I'm attaching my current Xorg.0.log -- the
> junk in the "TMDS type" is troubling.
>
> Please, advise. Thanks!
>
> 	-mi