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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | DualHead Option doesn't work with ATI RV 200 QW | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 | Reporter: | Guido Einig <geinig> |
| Component: | X.Org | Assignee: | Matthias Hopf <mhopf> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch> |
| Severity: | Normal | ||
| Priority: | P4 - Low | CC: | forgotten_lJlZXiCuPa, sndirsch, suse-beta |
| Version: | Beta 2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | Other | ||
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| Found By: | Other | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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Description
Guido Einig
2005-11-04 18:34:23 UTC
Something for our radeon specialist. :-) Please try the driver from http://www.opensuse.org/Laptops_and_external_VGA - it has several issues fixed regarding multihead support. I tried the new driver, but this driver doesn't even work with the old XOrg. The secondary display stays black using XOrg 6.8.2.30-1 and XOrg 6.8.2-100. Stefan, do we have a ATI RV 200 QW for testing? Yes I think so. Radeon 7500. Ok, current state: - radeon driver with clone: Works out-of-the-box - radeon driver with MergedFB: Both screens show one(!) of the two screens, both the same. This is odd. - radeon driver with Xinerama (sax2 -r -b Xinerama) Crashes due to a segfault in the Xserver. - radeon driver with Xinerama, manually configured (sax2 -r -b Xinerama -a) Crashes due to a segfault in the Xserver. - radeonold driver with clone: Works out-of-the-box - radeonold driver with MergedFB: Works out-of-the-box - radeonold driver with Xinerama Crashes due to a segfault in the Xserver. - radeonold driver with Xinerama, manually configured (sax2 -r -b Xinerama -a) Crashes due to a segfault in the Xserver. So for you in stable you will see nothing but regression :-( At least the radeonold driver with MergedFB works with this card, and Stefan wants to take a look at the latest Patch from Benjamin Herrenschmidt. Maybe he stumpled upon this issue. Right now there's nothing I can do, except for investigating why Xinerama fails. Fixed Product Name. Can you please remove the novellonly flag? I guess it was accidently set because of the temporarily wrong product. Also, I guess "beta4" is not the version you want to have for this bug... This needs to be tested again with the latest radeon driver (Beta8). I'm having the same difficulty under Beta 8 with my ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 (on a Sony PCG-GRX670 notebook). Changing to driver "radeonold" however does permit two monitors to be used in Xinerama mode. Can you please check whether the radeon10b driver of beta10 works for you as well? This driver reflects more the current CVS state of X.org, and future drivers will be close to this one than to radeonold. Ok, I just tried radeon10b and it will work in Xinerama mode. The YaST2 tool however has dual monitors disabled, but that is probably a result of my hand-editing the file to get Xinerama working. Sax2 doesn't know about radeon10b (and won't, because it will go away in the next SL version), thus it cannot enable dual head support. But it's good to know that radeon10b works for you. Still have to investigate why Xinerama crashed the Xserver. Low priority, though. I tried the radeon10b driver. It worked with my old xconf.org (after changing the drivername) at the first go. Even Sax2 seems to work. That's great. For me all problems are solved. :) Matthias, shouldn't we close this bug then? Still haven't checked the Xinerama crash. The bug is propbably still lingering out there, though not hitting anyone frequently (maybe it's already fixed due to coverty scans). Cannot reproduce any more. Closing as FIXED :) |