Hi! I have an iBook G4 with a radeon card. I have gotten the external monitor to work using MergedFB, which gives me a Xinerama display spanning my internal LCD and my external monitor. I would like to get two separate desktops instead of one. Unfortunately, if I turn off MergedFB (either by commenting it out, or setting it to "False"), when I start X, my external monitor goes dark, and only my LCD displays the root window. Here's what I'm trying wrt. the attached xorg.conf file: Scenario 1: - Set Option "MergedFB" "True" - Run X -layout Plain Effect: It works great, but /with/ Xinerama Scenario 2: - Set Option "MergedFB" "False" - Run X -layout Separate Effect: External monitor goes dark, and doesn't turn on http://ozlabs.org/~jk/docs/mergefb/ mentions a radeontool hack that will let you turn on the external DVI by setting register FP_GEN_CNTL. I would have tried the hacked-up radeontool, but my card differs from the one documented there, and I'm reluctant to play around with the card's registers. How can I get two separate desktops with the "radeon" driver ?
Created attachment 5291 [details] xorg.conf file corresponding to scenarios described.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5447 ***
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