Re: NetBSD 5.0, native Xorg and Xinerama - RandR

[Sverre Froyen <sverre%viewmark.com@localhost>]

On Wednesday 13 May 2009 02:55:38 Pierrick Brossin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> tech-x11 was not able to answer my question. This is why I am sending my
> question again but on netbsd-users this time :-)
>
> I am having a problem with the native version of Xorg on NetBSD 5.0
> My computer has two graphic cards. A GeForce 9300 and a Radeon 9200.
> This setup works correctly and window manager (fluxbox) starts twice
> (once on each screen).
> I wanted to enable Xinerama but X is not showing up. It seems it crashes
> after trying to enable RandR on the ATI card (I can provide a Xorg log
> file if required).
> I thought RandR was disabled when Xinerama was enabled.
>
> Any idea what I can do ?

I believe there is a bug in the radeon driver that prevents xinerama from 
working.  See: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10682  Looks like 
the problem may be fixed in the latest version but I don't believe NetBSD has 
picked it up yet.

Sverre