Re: xinerama portrait
Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
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matrox g450 or g550. I have a g550 it the output is great. I had a g400 before that and it too looked good. Alex --- Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 19:45, [email protected] wrote: > > I have a radeon 7000 dual head attached to two 15" LCD's. I want > to use > > them both in "portrait" mode (randr). When using xinerama, if I > try to run > > xrandr, I get the error message "extension 'randr' missing on > display > > ':0.0'." Any clue how to get this working? Keep in mind that I > have a > > radeon, so I'm not even sure if the drivers support randr. Thanks. > > > > > --Andrew Schwartz > > Andrew, how's the image quality on your two LCDs? I'm driving two > Dell > E171FP panels from a single Radeon 7500 card. The monitors are > analog > and I've got a DVI->VGA adaptor on one of the ports. > > I ask because -- despite the current brokenness of always-on clone > mode > -- the image quality has always been poor, even under XF 4.2. In a > nutshell, the DVI->VGA panel is fuzzy and the VGA panel has tons of > ghost lines and other image instabilities. Not to mention > positioning > problems on both heads. > > I know this is not a panel h/w problem because I can drive the same > monitors from a Radeon 8500 Mac card on my OSX box and they look > wonderful. I'm still suspecting the Radeon driver under XFree86. > > On a tangent: the various problems I'm having with the Radeon h/w > under > XFree86 are making my Linux desktop experience too depressing. Can > anyone recommend a good dual-head card that is well supported by > XFree86 > 4.3, that can drive two VGA flat panels, and that costs no more than > about $150? I don't care about gaming, i just need a good s/w > development platform (i.e. look real nice for text). > > Cheers, > -Barry > > > > > _______________________________________________ > xfree86-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list > IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list [email protected] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com