Re: [Dri-users] success: Fedora FC1 + Radeon 8500LE + DRI + multi-monitor..but a few Q's

[Alex D. <ag...@ya...>]

--- Dave Thomas <da...@sa...> wrote:
> 
> I have been using the ATI drivers for a while on my 8500 with two 19"
> monitors 
> and have been pretty happy with it. Tonight I decided to check out
> the state 
> of radeon DRI and it looks real good. I used the current r200
> snapshot and 
> now have it running with 3D and 'big desktop'....it seems to work
> very well. 
> The 2D seems 'snappier' compared to the current ATI drivers. Very
> nice.
> 

I assume you are talking about Mergedfb mode?

> Now with the Q's....
> 
> Since I am not running xinerama the KDE taskbar only spans one
> monitor while 
> my desktop spans both monitors. Any way to make the taskbar span both
> 
> monitors like it does with xinerama turned on? 

If you are talkign abotu Mergedfb, then it provides it's own xinerama
extension such that xinarama aware apps like the kde taksbar only
appear on logical screen 0.  to disable the built in xinerama
extension, add this option to your config:
Option "NoMergedXinerama" "TRUE" 
for more info on the mergedfb options see the updated radeon man page:
http://www.botchco.com/alex/radeon/mergedfb/cvs/DRI/final/radeon.4.html

Also, note that if you have a desktop larger than 2048 in height or
width, the DRI will be disabled.  to get around that add this option to
your config:
Option "no2048limit" "true"
note that this will only force the DRI to load, 3D contexts can not yet
be larger than 2048.  if they are, you will get an empty window.



> 
> Any way to adjust colors on one of the monitors? With the ATI drivers
> I could 
> turn the green down on one of the screens to get the color to match
> to other 
> screen. Can this be done with the DRI driver?

You might try xgamma.  however, I'm not sure if the gamma changes will
affect crtc2.  I've never tried it.  if not, it could be implemented, I
just haven't gotten around to it.

> 
> Thanks for everyones effort on these drivers. A job well done.
> 

thanks!

Alex

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