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Just to let everyone know, yet another ATI driver set, and this time i'm VERY VERY impressed.
ATI has a new installer, ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.run, which works like a charm, and is GUI for a change =)
Edit:: The driver link is 2 threads down. Installation was easy. you just chmod the installer to make it executable, run it, and follow the instructions (GUI)
Install, restart, and BAM, everything was working on my old settings except dual monitor settings (discussed below). No patches this time.. everything was plain vanilla. I have both agpgart and DRI enabled as modules in my kernel. glxgears gives me 2110fps on ATI Mobility Radion M9 (9200).
So i decided to give fglrxconfig a try since its been a year i didn't, and i want to sort out this dual monitor business... The new setup went smoothly, and it detected that i have 2 screens, and set it up. However, its slightly problematic.
glxgears now gives me 1700fps, but i guess its because i'm a very high resolution and dual monitors.. I don't mind.
The problem is, that previously, with 'radeon' drivers, it actually gave me a new screen on each monitor. It recognised the laptop as 1680x1050, and the ext monitor as 1280x1024, giving me a total of 2960x2074. Anything i start up, it starts it in the middle of whichever screen my mouse is on. You can drag and drop between them and scroll your mouse over from one to the other, but each screen had its own background.
Now, with fglrx drivers, its just one big screen streached over both monitors.. with the same background seriously streached.. lol. The resolution now is 3360x1050. Everything and anything i start, loads up smack in the middle, with half of it showing on the right side of my laptop, and the other half on the left side of the ext monitor (layout = LCD,CRT).
I'm wondering if anyone can guide me in showing me how i can fix this problem.
Thanks, and here's a copy of my new xorg.conf
Note: i edited out the games section and the other sections of xorg.conf to reduce confusion over things that won't be needed here atm. And the stuff in red you can ignore, because it has no effect over the end result.
All in all, really impressive work.. finally ati's beginning to show us some quality work.
EDIT:
In the radeon drivers, if i maximise a window, it still sticks to that same screen its on. With these fglrx drivers, it streaches over the 2 monitors.. =/ this is also another problem.
If the link doesn't quite work, go to http://ati.com
on the top, click on "Drivers & Software"
choose "Linux Drivers and Software"
depending on your processor (32 or 64 bit), choose "RADEON 8500 Series and higher"
click on "ATI Proprietary Linux x86 Drivers for XFree86 / X.Org Version 8.14.13"
Thanks for posting the link...it doesn't work for me. However, I did finally wade through the
ton of junk to get to any valuable information, and found that my chipset isnt' supported
anyway. Hope you get your issue solved...
Option "DesktopSetup" "0x00000000" # Single -or- Dual Head
Option "DesktopSetup" "0x00000100" # Clone -or- Laptop (configure MonitorLayout below)
Option "DesktopSetup" "0x00000200" # Big - Horizontal
Option "DesktopSetup" "0x00000201" # Big - Horizontal, connector1 on right
Option "DesktopSetup" "0x00000300" # Big - Vertical
Option "DesktopSetup" "0x00000301" # Big - Vertical, connector1 on bottom
You have it set has 0x00000200, but 0x00000000 looks more appropriate? (I'm not sure what other settings would need to go with it though).
Edit
Slight Addendum: Scroll through this configuration and look up the settings for dual head. It suggests you need two fglrx devices, and then ServerLayout set properly, if that's the result you're after?
Originally posted by Chinaman Thanks for posting the link...it doesn't work for me. However, I did finally wade through the
ton of junk to get to any valuable information, and found that my chipset isnt' supported
anyway. Hope you get your issue solved...
hello, i have a hp / compac nx8220 with ati x600 graphics card running slackware 10.0. i downloaded the ati-driver-installer-8.14.13.run and ran it, but it does not display any GUI at all. this is the output it generates:
Creating directory fglrx-install
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.14.13............................................................................................. .................................................................................................... .................................................................................................... .............
==================================================
ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
==================================================
Detected configuration:
Architecture: i686 (32-bit)
X Server:
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install
so i have the feeling something is not right. i also downloaded the some script from ati that should check my xorg version etc, but it only gives the following output:
=====================================================================
ATI Technologies
=====================================================================
You are either not running this script from the console
or simply do not have console ownership. Requirement failed.
Unable to determine XFree86 Version. Stopping now.
strange, i logged in as root, and ran this script both from console and from a xterm within x (i can run x at 1280x1024, but my screen supports 1680x1050).
i also tried to install fglrx_6_8_0-8.14.13-1.i386.rpm, both after making a .tgz from it or installing it with the --nodeps option (a lot of dependencies fail). i think this is ok, i can even run fglrxconfig to generate a xorg.conf for me, but it does not work.
any help is welcome, i'm not interested in opengl etc, i just want to enable the 1680x1050 resolution.
any help is welcome, i'm not interested in opengl etc, i just want to enable the 1680x1050 resolution.
You should be able to have that resolution without ATI's drivers.
edit: IF you're not going to use 3D acceleration, then stick with the radeon drivers.
They're more stable than ATI's.
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