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On 2008-11-10T12:40:54+00:00 Reinhard Tartler wrote:

This bug is forwarded from https://.launchpad.net/bugs/292214.

when the mga driver is configured for xinerama, the server aborts with
the message:

MGA(0): Unable to map BAR 0. Invalid argument (22)

This bug is confirmed in ubuntu and OpenSuse at http://www.linux-
club.de/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=97381.

I belive it is different to #9261 (this is no segfault).

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/292214/comments/15

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On 2008-11-10T12:42:12+00:00 Reinhard Tartler wrote:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-
mga/+bug/292214/comments/8 has a first analyses of this issue:

  Andy MacLean (0) wrote on 2008-11-07:  (permalink)

I have the same issue with a G550 card in dual head mode and managed to
change the code to get it all working with some nasty hacks. It looks
like it was broken when they changed the driver to use libpciaccess to
map memory regions instead of using the old xf86MapPciMem calls. There
are two problems:

-> It tries to map the card's IO and iload regions twice, once for each
head. libpciaccess doesn't like having two mappings for the same PCI
region in the same device so it gives back EINVAL and this causes the
breakage. I took out the check in pci_device_map_range in libpciaccess
and this worked OK.

-> The new code maps the whole framebuffer into both heads because it
uses region->base_addr and region->size instead of pMga->FBAddress and
pMga->FbMapSize. This makes both displays draw onto a single monitor and
it all looks very silly. I changed that in the mga driver and it works
fine now.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/292214/comments/16

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On 2009-04-07T01:24:36+00:00 Rboesger wrote:

Bug also reported on Gentoo:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265100

Last Patch available here:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19618287/mga-driver-3.patch

I use this patch since yesterday, no problems so far

(Gentoo, AMD64, MGA G550 (DualHead PCIe)


Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/292214/comments/48

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On 2009-05-06T04:55:51+00:00 Remi wrote:

Any news here? I have a few users who confirm the patch works. Could the
patch be applied to master?

Thanks

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/292214/comments/58

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On 2009-08-18T03:30:59+00:00 Rboesger wrote:

Any news here?

Is it really anoying to use this fix, whenever a new revision / release
of the corg server comes, please have a look on this issue.Thanks.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/292214/comments/64

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On 2009-08-18T03:58:57+00:00 Benoit-n1 wrote:

I can not work yet on this bug. Maybe I have it, but, I have tons of other X 
problems. Two are very ennoying, and prevent me working on the MGA one:
- when X (1.5) starts, it freeses the box (no more ping) => reset
- after reboot, I have no log file anywhere => no way to know what happened.

As long as I dont have logs, I can not comment here. I think launching
over ssh will NOT help (too many caches every where in IP layers).

What I can say is that ... I am pretty sure X 1.5 does not take care any
more about the conf file. I can also say that I have several Matrox, and
one non matrox card; and that, whether I tell the conf to use xinerama
or not, I have bugs; but, as it does not read the conf ... and I dont
get any log ...

even things like (forgot what I typed exactly)
X -- verbose --debug >>/root/log 2>&1
X freeses immediatly (less than 2s), so, the inode cache is not written on 
disk. So, even stdout>disk does not work (X freeses the kernel before the ext3 
5s auto-sync).

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/292214/comments/65

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On 2010-01-21T13:45:55+00:00 Benoit-n1 wrote:

I still can not work on this bug. I have a brand new machine, with 3 ATI
Radeon cards, dual head each, and i frequently got X freese, or kernel
panics. It depends on the driver and the conf. Even using X 1.7 and Mesa
1.4 does not help.

Amongst other problems, I don't what are the required features at the
kernel level. Some people mentioned about VGA_ARB ... and KMS, ut i do
not understand if they are required, recommended, or discouraged.

I don't know which kind of kernel is required, and which driver is
apropriate to help debuging this (ATI, radeon, radeonhd, fglrx ...)

Of course, I still have crashes, and rarely got logs.

I am ready for more tests, but don't know what to do. So many factors
impact ...

I have two working conf ATM:
- two heads on the first card
- one head per card, can only mouse the mouse from :0 to :1, and then from :1 
to ;2 . Never can move it back.

In either case, the monitor report the resolution to be 1024x768 when i
asked for 1280x1024 (monitor can display 1280, but X claims that EDID
stuff do not say so). ATM, the best way to have two cards or 2 monitors
working is to downgrade to X 1.4. 1.4 does what is in the conf, or shout
about what's wrong. 1.5 1.6 and 1.7 just crash, don't report problems,
and are sensible to many factors (mesalib, sdllib, kernel conf ... ).

And I did not find any tuto about how to do things.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/292214/comments/74

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On 2010-09-27T06:57:24+00:00 Tyler Gates wrote:

Created attachment 38982
Fix Xinerama for 1.4.11

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-
server/+bug/292214/comments/107

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On 2010-09-27T06:59:13+00:00 Tyler Gates wrote:

Attached a patch to fix Xinerama with version 1.4.11. I've tested this
for several days on at least 10 machines without any issues.

Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-
server/+bug/292214/comments/108


** Bug watch added: Gentoo Bugzilla #265100
   https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265100

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