Hi ! Three days ago, I decided to install X 4.3 on my iBook G3 with debian packages from experimental to have a full X 4.3 (sorry Michel :-)) What happened is really weird: I used to use Vincent Bernat's layoutchooser.py with gdm to switch from 2 config in my XF86Config-4. I removed xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk, thinking it would cause some weirdness. But with the packages from experimental, the config with 2 screens did not work: basic cloning from on screen to the other with a color tendency generally being green (yerk!). On the other hand, the single screen worked and the other screen did not present me the usual weird melt of black and screen with a big mouse pointer. It was just a perfect cloning from the LCD. So prefering to have 2 independent screens, I reinstalled xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk without removing experimental packages: At this moment, it became the best I had ever had: single mode: perfect cloning with DRI enabled double mode: dual-head with no DRI and what is really cool: no X running, perfect console cloning. But this lasted until the next reboot. This is 100% reproducable. What could have caused such a behaviour from the framebuffer ? For the moment, I'm tweaking Vincent's python script to use X4.3 with one head config and Michel's X with dual-head. It works but I find it a bit nasty :-) Has anyone suggestions ? attached is my XF86Config-4
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