reopen 236197 tag 236197 = upstream help severity 236197 normal retitle 236197 xserver-xfree86: [ati/radeon] dual-head sometimes inoperative (affected by dual-booting Windows 98) on Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] rev 0 thanks On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 04:35:41PM -0500, Miguel Marques wrote: > Greetings... > On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 13:18:08 -0800, owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) wrote: > > > 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.=20 > > >=20 > > > In any case sorry for wasting everyone's time on this. > > > > No problem; it's good to have this information archived (both in the BTS > > and on our mailing list), as it may prove useful to others in the > > future. > > > > Closing as unreproducible per submitter. > > > > That figures (I really hate that Murphy guy) ;-). > Just before I actually run into the problem again > and submitted more information and a workaround. > > You may want to reopen with a lower priority (since I can just power > off after whatever happened when I upgrade) and I'm available for any > testing (assuming I can get it to happen again :-( ) if you need it. > Thanks! Doing so. Thanks for following up. -- G. Branden Robinson | It just seems to me that you are Debian GNU/Linux | willfully entering an arse-kicking branden@debian.org | contest with a monstrous entity http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | that has sixteen legs and no arse.
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