On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 07:23:54PM -0800, Nathaniel Gray wrote: > You said: > """ > I just built 4.2.99.4 from CVS on my Radeon 7500 Mobility laptop. > Starting X yields a blank display and a locked keyboard. Attempting to > kill > X or shutdown the laptop via ssh results in a complete system lockup. > """ > > I had a similar problem (same video card, 4.2.99.4 binary) that was > caused by a mismatched radeon.o kernel module. I'm not sure if that's > what's going wrong for you though. Building the module from the latest > DRI CVS sources solved it, but there were other problems:
I made doubly sure that I'm using the radeon.o built from the 4.2.99.4 DRM sources, so it doesn't seem to be that. > Out of curiosity, since you also have a 7500 mobility, have you ever > tried running it dual-head with an external monitor? I'm trying to > make that happen and having problems: > http://www.mail-archive.com/xfree86@xfree86.org/msg00947.html I've attached my XF86Config-4 with working Xinerama layout. To test this, do: startx -- -layout "XineramaLayout" This creates two 800x600 screens that are "overlayed", but you can obviously change that. I used it for presentations on projectors before CloneMode was available. Thanks for answering, Charl -- charl p. botha http://cpbotha.net/ http://visualisation.tudelft.nl/ _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
