Bug#263952: Pointers and Scale are invisible on secondary XINERAMA screens
Hi!
I'm jumping in rigt in the middle now. Sorry if I've totally missed
what it's all about.
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 11:36:24PM +0200, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 03:37:41PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-10-13 00:24:44 -0400, Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>
> > wrote in message
> <[🔎] 1097641484.4421.46.camel@admin.tel.thor.asgaard.local>:
> > > On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 15:43 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2004-09-01 04:55:17 -0500, Branden Robinson
> <branden@debian.org>
> > > > wrote in message <20040901095517.GO16490@redwald.deadbeast.net>:
> > > > I guess (but of course I'm not sure -- I'm not a X11 / XFree86
> guru...)
> > > > this means that the used widget library contains a bug. I guess
> it's
> > > > responsible for providing the xwd dump data, but not the hardware
> > > > driver...
> >
> > > This is likely a driver bug; to most other components involved it
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Maybe, but I've seen the same behaviour using the siliconmotion driver on several
screens in Xinerma mode. Scales only showed up on the first. I was using
4.3.0.dfsg.1 back then.
> > > matters little if at all which screen xclock is on. So, please
> provide
> > > the information about your setup that Branden asked for in his first
> > > followup.
> >
> > Here we are:
>
> Thanks for following up! I need a little more info, though:
>
> > VGA-compatible devices on PCI bus:
> > 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280
> [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01)
> > 0000:02:09.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage
> II+ 215GTB [Mach64 GTB] (rev 9a)
> > 0000:02:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage
> II+ 215GTB [Mach64 GTB] (rev 9a)
>
> Which of these video cards is driving the display that exhibits the bad
> behavior?
>
> Does it matter? I.e., does the middle screen always have this problem
> whether it's being driven by the RV280 or the 3D Rage II+ cards?
>
> --
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> drawing
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