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Hotplugging: VGA to alubook 5,8 [was: Re: getting wireless and dvi out [ ... ]]



Hi Bin, Everyone,

I'm starting a new thread: I do not want to hijack the one
where this ati-driver topic started ... 

On Fri, Nov 23 2007, at 18:58 +0100, Bin Zhang wrote:
> On Nov 23, 2007 2:54 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer <roto@gmx.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 23 2007, at 14:49 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> >
> > > Sidenotes:
> > >
> > > Since installing the new driver some artifacts are visible around the
> > > mouse-pointer in its default "arrow" image ...  Please let me know if
> >
> > This last line should have been saying:
> > "mouse-pointer on X in its default "arrow" image [ ... ]"
> >                ^^^^
> >
> > > a photo from that might help ...
> > >
> > > And the mouse is completely gone on the console .. haven't had time,
> > > yet, to google/explore that ...
> 
> Try adding a line
> Option  "SWcursor" "on"
> in Section "Device" of your xorg.conf.

The problem seems being gone for the moment, without having changed
xorg.conf here ... But I'll have a look into the "SWcursor" "on"
option .. Thanks for the hint, Bin ...
The problem I reported a few hours ago about the missing mouse pointer
on console probably was due to a crashed gpm server ... Perhaps it
went belly up after restarting X a few times in a row ... not being
sure .. :)


Then this:

BTW: Anyone out there who compiled today's (Friday, Nov 23) radeon
sources received via
'git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati' ?

I compiled them this evening, overwrote the drivers in the
xserver-xorg-video-ati package from experimental, and got errors like
those when I connected the VGA mentioned in the previous thread:

----------------------------------------------

First a newly compiled xrandr (got the sources via
git-clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/app/xrandr
 .. IINM):

./downloads/radeon/xrandr/xrandr/xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1440 x 960, maximum 1440 x 1200
LVDS connected 1440x960+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 321mm x 2
14mm
   1440x960       59.9*+
   1280x800       60.0  
   1280x768       60.0  
   1024x768       60.0  
   800x600        60.3  
   640x480        59.9  
DVI-0 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
   1440x960       60.0  
   1280x800       59.8     60.0  
   1280x768       60.0  
   1152x720       60.0  
   1024x768       60.0     59.9  
   1024x640       59.9  
   800x600        60.3  
   800x500        59.5  
   720x480        59.7  
   640x480        59.9  
S-video unknown connection 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis
) 0mm x 0mm
   800x600        60.3* 

## Note: There was no S-video connection that I knew about
----------------------------------------------------------

Then using the old xrandr from
x11-xserver-utils 7.3+1:

$ xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto
xrandr: cannot find crtc for output DVI-0

---------------------------------------------
The new xrandr compiled from sources I got via
git-clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/app/xrandr

./downloads/radeon/xrandr/xrandr/xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto
./downloads/radeon/xrandr/xrandr/xrandr: cannot find crtc for output DVI-0
-------------------------------------------------

Going back to xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.7.196-1 solved these issues,
and I could successfully connect the old VGA as I already described a
few hours ago ...

Anything I missed?

And this: I saw this
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11796
This was the main reason I compiled the fresh xf86-video-ati sources:
I thought the patch mentioned on this page would solve the scrambled
mouse image on X: it didn't, IIRC ... 

Best Regards
Wolfgang

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