Bug#332548: Summary

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 10:18 -0500, Paul Donohue wrote:
> > > 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.
> When direct rendering is not enabled?  Hmmm...  I was under the 
> impression direct rendering couldn't be enabled when dual head is enabled...

It can with fglrx, in contrast to the free drivers.


> > > 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...
> I'm not particularly experienced with X development...  Will I need to 
> build all of X using each CVS revision, or will it be possible to just 
> build one or two copies of X, then build each copy of the driver from 
> CVS and use it with the one copy of X?

Older driver code should still work with the current server code.

> ...and...um...where is the CVS archive for the radeon driver?  I'm not 
> seeing it at http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/

http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/

Note that in order to build this, you'll need xserver-xorg-dev from
experimental or Ubuntu dapper, or to build xserver CVS yourself.


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