Re: Xorg and multiple graphics cards

2009-04-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Tiago Vignatti vigna...@freedesktop.org [2009.04.29.0422 +0200]: Yeah, I'm trying to solve part of this. Great, I will definitely try to help, but it will take me a few days. I will study the bugs and reply to them, but also keep the list in the loop, okay? -- martin |

Re: Xorg and multiple graphics cards

2009-04-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com [2009.04.21.1734 +0200]: Looks like an XAA problem. Can you try with EXA? Option AccelMethod EXA in your device sections. I tried with EXA in all four sections, and the result I get is another segfault: Program received signal SIGSEGV,

Re: Xorg and multiple graphics cards

2009-04-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net [2009.04.28.1806 +0200]: I tried with EXA in all four sections, and the result I get is another segfault: Julien pointed me to commit faf7dfa099f5b42a703313fbd1bf8afdad07a179, which seems to solve that problem. Unfortunately, like the hydra, this

Re: Xorg and multiple graphics cards

2009-04-28 Thread Alex Deucher
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:47 PM, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: also sprach martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net [2009.04.28.1806 +0200]: I tried with EXA in all four sections, and the result I get is another segfault: Julien pointed me to commit

Re: Xorg and multiple graphics cards

2009-04-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com [2009.04.28.1957 +0200]: It won't work until your secondary card is posted. Int10 posting of secondary cards doesn't work with libpciaccess. The non-int10 post code in the ddx is incomplete and disabled. You also explained on IRC: Normally

Re: Xorg and multiple graphics cards

2009-04-28 Thread Alex Deucher
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:07 PM, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: also sprach Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com [2009.04.28.1957 +0200]: It won't work until your secondary card is posted.  Int10 posting of secondary cards doesn't work with libpciaccess.  The non-int10 post code in

Re: Xorg and multiple graphics cards

2009-04-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com [2009.04.28.2122 +0200]: Hard to say, depends on when the work gets done. The universal fix would be to get int10 and vga stuff working with libpciaccess, which on Linux at least, requires a kernel vga arbiter. Not sure about other OSs. radeon

Re: Xorg and multiple graphics cards

2009-04-28 Thread Tiago Vignatti
Hi, martin f krafft escreveu: 3. When moving the mouse from head to head, the old pointer is left on the edge of the head we just left, and stays there while a new pointer moves about on the entered head. When moving back, the new pointer stays at the edge, and the old pointer is

Re: Xorg and multiple graphics cards

2009-04-28 Thread Tiago Vignatti
Alex Deucher escreveu: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:07 PM, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: Your best bet short term is to use xserver 1.4.x. Any idea how long that short term is? 1.4.x works fine for me at the moment, but I'd rather not build on that basis for indeterminate time...

Re: Xorg and multiple graphics cards

2009-04-28 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Tiago Vignatti wrote: Alex Deucher escreveu: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:07 PM, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: Your best bet short term is to use xserver 1.4.x. Any idea how long that short term is? 1.4.x works fine for me at the moment, but I'd rather not

Re: Xorg and multiple graphics cards

2009-04-28 Thread Tiago Vignatti
Hi Timothy, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: Can I point out that https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20816 and its dependencies are the appropriate bugs for the issue? Not that I want to discourage mailing list comment, or anything, but merely to point any relevant people at

Re: Xorg and multiple graphics cards

2009-04-21 Thread Alex Deucher
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:33 PM, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: also sprach Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com [2009.04.16.1908 +0200]: Can you get a full backtrace with gdb? http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging Wow, you guys *really* make it easy for

Re: Xorg and multiple graphics cards

2009-04-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com [2009.04.15.1859 +0200]: That's what zaphod mode is. What sort of problem do you get when you use that config against the newer driver? Using the following software on Debian sid: ii xserver-xorg1:7.3+18the X.Org X server ii

Re: Xorg and multiple graphics cards

2009-04-16 Thread Alex Deucher
On 4/16/09, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: also sprach Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com [2009.04.15.1859 +0200]: That's what zaphod mode is. What sort of problem do you get when you use that config against the newer driver? Using the following software on Debian sid: ii

Re: Xorg and multiple graphics cards

2009-04-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com [2009.04.16.1559 +0200]: 1. it displays some Radeon identification string on both heads connected to the primary card, while the head on the secondary card stays black 2. the identification string changes into the sequence

Re: Xorg and multiple graphics cards

2009-04-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com [2009.04.16.1908 +0200]: Can you get a full backtrace with gdb? http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging Wow, you guys *really* make it easy for people, especially on Debian. Thanks! Here it is: Program received signal

Re: Xorg and multiple graphics cards

2009-04-15 Thread Alex Deucher
On 4/15/09, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: Hi folks, After upgrading to 7.4, I got an ABI mismatch when using the old 6.6 ATI driver to control the two Radeon cards I have in my machines, which are combined with Xinerama into a triple-monitor setup. I could also not compile

Re: Xorg and multiple graphics cards

2009-04-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com [2009.04.15.1748 +0200]: (2) is clearly not an option, so I am doing (1), but I am also reminded of this thread on the issue: zaphod style multi-head should still work with the radeon driver. I am not sure I know what zaphod-style is. I've

Re: Xorg and multiple graphics cards

2009-04-15 Thread Alex Deucher
On 4/15/09, martin f krafft madd...@madduck.net wrote: also sprach Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com [2009.04.15.1748 +0200]: (2) is clearly not an option, so I am doing (1), but I am also reminded of this thread on the issue: zaphod style multi-head should still work with the