Bug#372920: Subject: xserver-xorg-video-ati: Xinerama crashes X and kernel
retitle 372920 Accidentally allows mixing of screens with UseFBDev on and off with a single device
severity 372920 minor
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On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 15:14 +0200, Josef Spillner wrote:
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> One of the screens has framebuffer enabled, the other one doesn't.
That's asking for trouble, the X driver and radeonfb are stepping on
each other's toes in that situation. It's by accident that the radeon
driver allows this in the first place, not by intention.
> This setup worked very well for XFree86.
I'm afraid that was just luck.
> If there's another way right now to enable the VGA output, please
> document this somewhere.
See the radeon(4) manpage about MergedFB.
Adjusting the description and severity to the fact that this is an
unsupported configuration which accidentally doesn't get rejected.
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