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

[Sam Geeraerts]

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installing a newer version of the driver is probably not really a 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.

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