On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 12:22 -0500, Paul Donohue wrote: > There seem to be two separate (but possibly related) problems occuring with > the radeon driver: > For some people, upgrading from xorg 6.8.2 to xorg 6.8.99 or 6.9.0 causes the > second display to go blank. > For other people, the same upgrade causes the second display to be a garbled > clone of the first display. > > Debian Bugs 345509 and 332548 seem to be reporting blank displays. > Debian Bug 345839 seems to be reporting a garbled display. > There is also an upstream bug report related to a garbled display: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5447
Thanks for the summary. > It sounds like switching to MergedFB mode or the fglrx drivers fixes > the problem for everyone - BTW, dual head is known not to work correctly with fglrx when direct rendering is not enabled. That's not related to this bug. > If I have time, I'll try some revisions in CVS between 6.8.2 and 6.9.0 > to see if I can find when the problem appeared, but this could take a > while. I'm afraid there's no way around that... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
