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After having again trouble with using a video projector with my ThinkPad I decided to give the randr-1.2 branch of the radeon driver a try.

For the randr-1.2 support inside the xserver and xrandr you need pretty new versions of it. Xserver-core should be version 1.3 no idea about xrandr. Using Debian SID everything you need is already there. Perhaps you need to install some -dev packages for X stuff.

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati
git checkout randr-1.2
./configure
make

The only missing thing is now to copy the driver in the right directory. Make sure you backup the old driver before.

cp src/.libs/radeon_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/

Now you can restart X and run xrandr. Attach another monitor and run it again. :)

For some further tips I found this blog entry from Ross Burton very helpful.

After having a busy time with university, OpenMoko and getting my partime freelance going I now are getting more relaxed and looking forward to the next two weeks which I will spend mostly on two conferences.

Next week starts with my flight to France. I'm giving a talk about free software on mobile phones. It covers mostly OpenEZX and OpenMoko, but also tries to give an overview about other projects in this area. As my talk is at the first day I'm looking forward for the other talks, visit Amiens and doing having some time for OpenMoko related work.

Coming back from France means having a half day and a night at home and jumping over to England again. GUADEC will be full of meeting people, having fun and making plans for the upcoming month. I'll fly together with Daniel and his girlfriend and meet up Mickey in Birmingham. But besides OpenMoko related discussions I really looking forward to meet people behind Gnome.