Re: [gNewSense-users] dual monitors with ati radeon

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Mon, 1/3/11, Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] dual monitors with ati radeon
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Monday, January 3, 2011, 10:40 PM
> Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> > Thanks, I get:
> > (II) Loading
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//ati_drv.so
> > (II) Loading
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so
> > 
> > At 640x480 on both monitors, it actually is successful
> and I get a continuous desktop across the monitors. 
> But any other combination of resolutions either shuts one of
> the monitors off or clones it.
> 
> Earlier discussion on this mailing list [1] suggests that
> screen resolution is limited with gNewSense's radeon
> support. The solution of installing a newer version of the
> driver is probably not really a solution at all, because I
> suspect that will also install the blob that was
> deliberately removed because of freedom issues.

Ah, ok.  Thanks for the link.

-Jonathan

> 
> [1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-users/2009-07/msg00028.html
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