I have been using the Open Source driver pretty much since I bought this laptop. It sports the RV690 chipset which AFAIK is actually based on the R500 ASICS. For the longest time having a multiple monitor setup in this system has been problematic, to say the least, but in recent incarnations of both the driver and the Xorg server it has been progressively easier to reasonably achieve this goal. Especially useful in a laptop/netbook for presentations and the like.
At any rate, there is still a long standing problem with multiple monitors setup and the Radeon driver (in it current incarnation in Fedora 14, at least), especially when running with Compiz. On the secondary display the background image is only displayed up to half of the screen, with a drop shadow and the rest of the display is covered with whatever is left lingering at that area.
As they say, an image speaks a thousand words: Radeon Bug
At any rate, there is still a long standing problem with multiple monitors setup and the Radeon driver (in it current incarnation in Fedora 14, at least), especially when running with Compiz. On the secondary display the background image is only displayed up to half of the screen, with a drop shadow and the rest of the display is covered with whatever is left lingering at that area.
As they say, an image speaks a thousand words: Radeon Bug
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