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Bug#236197: acknowledged by developer



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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