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Old 01-Jul-2009, 02:36
akaine akaine is offline
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Default Re: Can't detect second monitor [ATI HD 3870, dual-head, sax

Thanks for advice. Though I couldn't solve any of my problems using the gentoo docs (always respected the gentoo distro btw. Sometimes I just want to forget all this suse thing and just get back to it, and then I remember the days and even weeks of configs and compilation, and I say NO, even if it's worse).

I've noticed some time ago that ati driver overrides sax2 config. I was able to achieve the same thing they do in that howto by setting the second screen as primary and then correcting the resolutions just using CCC. Still I need this **** xinerama, if not - there is no point in having 2 displays: any window opened on the first screen appears in the primary (2nd in my case) display area only.

I remember that some time ago I was able to do all this correctly and sax2 showed 2 monitors as well. That was with an older driver of course, and probably not with suse v11, but v10.X. Still it was the same hardware, and I doubt it all have changed so much with newer kernel and drivers.

Btw, any recomendation for the catalyst version? Right now I tried to use latest&gr..appiest (9.6), but I am fully aware of the "fine" job ATI was doing with the drivers releases for the last 2 years. Any proved and stable one? Actually the only reason I want it exactly with ati drivers is because of cedega/wine dx games emulation (EVE-Online for ex.). So maybe I'm wrong and there is a simplier and more stable solution to this?

Meanwhile I'll try to reinstall it all from the scratch, this time with KDE...
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