holr Posted November 2, 2006 Report Share Posted November 2, 2006 hello, I have installed the latest ati drivers for my laptop (8.29.6 i think) and they are running fine. XGL loads up nice too, lovely wobbly windows and all that. I use dual screens in work (by dual screens, i mean one big desktop, not dual-head) and was wondering if anyone else had luck with an ati card getting xgl on a big desktop? I believe there are two ways to configure a big desktop, using xinerama and using ati's tool, "aticonfig". I have only been using aticonfig so far. I can get dual screens up, but it hangs before even showing the mandriva splash screen (just get a mouse cursor with a busy sign). However, if i disable xgl altogether, the dual screens come up fine, but doesnt look too pretty anymore. Im pretty sure I had this enabled before, but that may have been with aiglx and the open source ati drivers, however I need the binary ones so I guess xgl is the only route available! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holr Posted November 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2006 I have read into this problem a bit more, and it seems this combination isn't possible on ati hardware at the moment, with the current 8.29.6 drivers. xinerama doesnt have composite multiscreen for both displays, and its a similar problem for ati. If i get this solved in the future, i'll be sure to post something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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