On 17 Mar 2003, Ben Guthro wrote: > > > In xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/CHANGELOG > > 754. Fixed VBE EDID read: due to a missing register setting read > > ended in endless loop on certain systems (Egbert Eich). > > On a good day an endless loop would be aborted. > > It would be worth trying v4.2
Typo; I meant it would be worth trying 4.3. > I am currently running version 4.2.0 (18 Jan 2002) > I have up to change 690 in my CHANGELOG. So, this may be my problem. > > However, before trying the most recent version, I set my ATI Radeon card > up to run in dual head mode, one off the DVI connector, one off the VGA. > This, interestingly produced the same results > > xprop -display :0.1 -root 8x XFree86_DDC_EDID1_RAWDATA > XFree86_DDC_EDID1_RAWDATAAborted > > Do you still think that its a driver problem? Sorry, "driver" was the wrong word. However the radeon DDC code has been seriously overhauled since 4.2. I really think you should upgrade to 4.3 before going further. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
