xrandr-1.2.2 + multihead = broken

vehemens vehemens at verizon.net
Fri Dec 12 21:09:33 PST 2008


On Friday 12 December 2008 07:57:16 am Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:05:40 -0800
> > From: vehemens <vehemens at verizon.net>
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org
> >
> > It appears that xrandr-1.2.2 cannot be used for multi-head setup. 
> > Upgrading to version 1.2.3 fixed it.  Not sure if this was the only
> > problem, as I also updated my ati video driver with a recent git snapshot
> > during the debug.
> >
> > Running recent versions of 7.1 and ports on an AMD 6400 for reference.
> >
> > Anyone else seeing this problem?
>
> What sort of graphics is involved?

It's a Radeon HD 2600 Pro Series.  I can only get one half of the screen at a 
time as changing one head affects the x offset of the other.

> I just configured a system with ATI Radeon 7000 using xrandr-1.2.2 and
> had no problems at all with my dual-headed config. I set the resolution
> and the relationship between the screens with xrandr with normal
> results.
>
> I am also running a recent 7.1 from 12/9, but it's an old 2 GHz P4. Are
> you running i386 or amd64?

amd64.




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