Bug#236197: xserver-xfree86: [ati/radeon] Dual Head not working after upgrade from 4.3.0-2 to 4.3.0-3.
Greetings...
On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 02:53:44 +0100, Christian Guggenberger <christian.guggenberger@physik.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 22:02, Miguel Marques wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xfree86
> > Version: 4.3.0-2
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: sid
> >
> > Dual Head stopped working after upgrading to 4.3.0-3 from 4.3.0-2.
> > The same image is displayed on both screens. Everything works fine again
> > after downgrading from 4.3.0-3 to 4.3.0-2 with no other changes.
> > Card information is:
> > ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]
> > Feel free to contact me for further information.
> > Thanks.
>
> can you send some more details to this bug report? XF86Config-4 and
> XFree86.log would be a good start.
>
> Speaking for myself, I run Dualhead without any problems on exactly the
> same Graphics Chip with 4.3.0-3.
Unfortunately I can no longer reproduce this problem. When I upgraded
again to 4.3.0-3 to get the extra information requested by
Christian, dual head worked just fine. I don't understand what
the difference is since nothing else has changed (other than any
libraries upgraded in between). Both me and someone fairly
knowledgeable on Debian restarted the server several times when the
problem occured and tried several XF86Config-4 changes to no avail.
The only thing that comes to mind is that this machine gets rebooted
to Windows 98 occasionally and perhaps the card was left in some
strange state after I booted back into Linux. I did boot back into
Windows 98 yesterday and today things are working again.
In any case sorry for wasting everyone's time on this.
Miguel
C. Miguel Marques, Development Services, Computing and Network Services, York University
e-mail: miguel at yorku.ca, voice: (416)736-2100x22684, fax: (416)736-5830
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