FYI, I have a workaround. Set the primary video device to PCI in the bios. I don't know why this works, but it's enough to get by with at least.
Robert On Monday 19 June 2006 20:37 Robert Persson was like: > On Monday 19 June 2006 13:25 Robert Persson was like: > > A while ago I had a working 2-head setup which I stopped using because I > > needed to use the proprietary ati driver. Now I need to revert to using > > the twin-head setup, but I can't get it to work any more. > > > > I have the same xorg.conf as before. What has changed is that I have > > upgraded to xorg-7. It is also likely that I did something to my kernel > > config to get the fglrx driver to work properly, but I can't remember > > what exactly. I get confused about this because the various > > display-related kernel options are scattered all over the place. > > > > The setup basically consists of an agp radeon 9200SE (using the radeon > > driver) and a pci voodoo banshee (using the tdfx driver). > > > > The precise manifestation of the problem changed with the recent bump > > from xorg-server-1.0.2-r4 to xorg-server-1.0.2-r5. > > > > Before the bump I got a screen that was the right overall colour, but > > with ugly incomplete horizontal lines across it. Windows were > > recognisably windows, but still heavily garbled. Within half an hour or > > so I would have complete system lock-up. > > > > After the bump I now get a screen composed of horizontal red and black > > lines, with the occasional flicker on the left hand side when something > > happens on the desktop. The only thing that is barely recognisable is the > > mouse pointer, which looks like a white bar-code. After a period of use > > (perhaps 20 minutes) the display locks up irrecoverably, but I am able to > > restart gracefully from a remote terminal session. -- Robert Persson That's MISTER Scum to you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
