On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 10:18 -0500, Paul Donohue wrote: > > > 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. > When direct rendering is not enabled? Hmmm... I was under the > impression direct rendering couldn't be enabled when dual head is enabled...
It can with fglrx, in contrast to the free drivers. > > > 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... > I'm not particularly experienced with X development... Will I need to > build all of X using each CVS revision, or will it be possible to just > build one or two copies of X, then build each copy of the driver from > CVS and use it with the one copy of X? Older driver code should still work with the current server code. > ...and...um...where is the CVS archive for the radeon driver? I'm not > seeing it at http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/ http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/ Note that in order to build this, you'll need xserver-xorg-dev from experimental or Ubuntu dapper, or to build xserver CVS yourself. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
