radeon & dual-monitors

[bertaboy]

I have a 17" monitor as my primary monitor (connected via DVI) and a 26" TV hooked up (via VGA) which I would like to have operating as my secondary monitor. I know I could get this set up using the fglrx drivers, but so far I've been unable to get it to work properly using the open-sourced driver. Right now, when I have both monitors hooked up, Xorg defaults to the TV (VGA) being the primary monitor and blanks the 17". I can also get both monitors to show an output, but then the desktop size is set to the TV's size and the output is operating in some sort of clone mode.

Does anyone have dual-monitors (with different resolutions) working using the opensourced drivers? If so, has anyone been able to define which monitor is the primary and which is the secondary?

[bertaboy]

so I've managed to get clone to work with both monitors outputting at 1024x768, so things are a little better, but it's still not very convenient. Does anyone know if zaphod mode is working with the xf86-video-ati-6.9.0? Ideally, I'd love to have my vga output be only a Myth frontend while my DVI is my desktop output. I'd imagine this shouldn't be a problem if I'm using two frame buffers (one for Myth, the other for the desktop) since the sum of the areas is less than the 2048x2048 big buffer limit (1366x768+1280x1024)

[bertaboy]

So I've deducted that the screen blanking is a gnome configuration issue, since it only occurs for one user but does not happen for neither root nor another user. However, I can not figure out why I can't be getting one X session to be using one monitor while having a second X session running another monitor.... X also appears to be overriding the NoRandR commands

barebones xorg.conf I'm using for testing:

[bertaboy]

Apparently this is an issue with xorg-server. Upgrading from 1.3 has unlocked multiseat