More (different) problems with Radeon 9500 Pro

mikenicholaides

Hey, thanks you, PangingJr, for the heads up on my last post, but the solution you proposed didn't work. I now switched to the "radeon" driver and have made some progress, but I still have a major problem. Here is a description of my problem:

I'm running FC5 32bit on my AMD64 3200, with a Radeon 9500 Pro. I had dual head working on FC4, but I haven't been able to get it to work now on FC5.

Right now, I have Xinerama on (and clone off), and it's kind of working, but not. See, the mouse can mover back and forth between screens just fine. Both screens, however, both display EXACTLY the same thing, except for the mouse is only ever on one screen at a time. Also, my desktop-switcher widget shows extra wide desktops, but I can never see the other half.

What makes it weirder, is that one screen resonds to the mouse (like I can click on a window to give it focus), but the other screen will not; it will show the mouse over a window, but clicking on it does nothing, and mouse-overs do nothing as well.

Does this make any sense to anyone?

Thanks, mike

BTW, here's my xorg.conf:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Multihead layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
Option "Clone" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, a font server independent of the X server is
# used to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "ViewSonic E90-4"
DisplaySize 360 270
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 30.0 - 86.0
VertRefresh 60.0 - 70.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1024x768"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5
VertRefresh 40.0 - 70.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R300 NE [Radeon 9500 Pro]"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard1"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "Videocard Vendor"
BoardName "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R300 NE [Radeon 9500 Pro]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Videocard1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

RIV@NVX

Yes, it does. Driver called "radeon", included with X.org 6.9 and 7.0 has number of dual-head issues that I also experienced on my laptop. I don't know if there is a way in FC to use older version that works nicely; in SUSE 10.1 you can choose "radeonold" as your driver to get radeon from X.org 6.8.2.