Bug#332548: Summary
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 12:22 -0500, Paul Donohue wrote:
> There seem to be two separate (but possibly related) problems occuring with the radeon driver:
> For some people, upgrading from xorg 6.8.2 to xorg 6.8.99 or 6.9.0 causes the second display to go blank.
> For other people, the same upgrade causes the second display to be a garbled clone of the first display.
>
> Debian Bugs 345509 and 332548 seem to be reporting blank displays.
> Debian Bug 345839 seems to be reporting a garbled display.
> There is also an upstream bug report related to a garbled display:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5447
Thanks for the summary.
> It sounds like switching to MergedFB mode or the fglrx drivers fixes
> the problem for everyone -
BTW, dual head is known not to work correctly with fglrx when direct
rendering is not enabled. That's not related to this bug.
> If I have time, I'll try some revisions in CVS between 6.8.2 and 6.9.0
> to see if I can find when the problem appeared, but this could take a
> while.
I'm afraid there's no way around that...
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