Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
The ongoing saga of dead dual head for ATI based devices continues.
Using the latest Rawhide radeon driver, the situation is vastly
improved over FC5, yet still far from the working state present in FC4
(which I now consider to have been serendipitous).
Never heard the term before:
serendipitous
adj : being lucky in making unexpected and furtunate discoveries
Configuring
xinerama mode is doable and it works although it had to be done
manually. system-config-display is severely broken and bug reports
have been filed into the Fedora Black Hole bug reporting system.
THe bug reporting system is severely flawed and probably needs an
accountability system that takes into account bugs sitting with no
response. If there is such a provision for bugzilla, it does not seem to
compell compliance.
I've
attempted a dozen variants on getting two separate X displays running
on each head with no success so far. My first attempt was to use the
xorg.conf that worked successfully with FC4 but that resulted in a "no
signal" condition with FC5 and on Rawhide.
This may or may not lead to a path to check for possible problems. I
have a system with two displays where one video cards starts the boot
process via BIOS setting for the primary display. (Intel 815) - Then
sometime within the boot initialization, text output changes to the
secondary display. (ATI).
The text on the primary display is frozen, while the secondary display
shows text mode past the transition to the ATI display.
Once X is started in single head mode, the GUI is started on the Intel
display marked as primary. Once you exit X or ctl-alt-Fn to a text
terminal, the secondary display shows the text and interactivity is
possible. Text on the Intel displays what was showing when text
displaying was transferred to the ATI card.
For dual-head operation, the Intel is primary, garbage is displayed on
the ATI. Moving a mouse around the display shows activity but garbage.
Once you start the GUI and go back to text mode, the ATI display shows
text but with no recognizable characters.
Now, I had an old entry for dual head problems and Adam Jackson did
defer the bug report for consideration for resolution in the FC6
timeline. (Deferred from FC5 since resolution timeline would not make FC5).
As far as I know, Adam is fairly new with RH/Fedora X problems but is
big on the xorg-x11 scene. Hopefully the dual-head problem that exists
now will b resolved within the FC6 timeframe. At least enough to get FC4
luck to show up in FC6 releases.
Then I tried a dozen or so
variants attempting to guess how xorg.conf should be configured given
the radeon man page. Success by discovery can be both a very tedious
and frustrating process, so I'm hoping that some X guru can suggest:
The xorg-x11 list has a lot of X gurus and their attitude is down to
earth when I was subscribed to their list before.
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
Sorry, no guru here. I depend on their discovery and reliable setup
programs.
1) an xorg.conf file that actually does work for configuring separate
X displays in a dual head configuration with a recent Rawhide ati
driver (I'm using xorg-x11-ati-6.6.0-3) or
2) an xorg.conf file that could be reasonably expected to work in a
dual head ati based system.
Thanks,
-pmr
Jim
--
untold wealth, n.:
What you left out on April 15th.
