Bug#575244: xserver-xorg: Segmentation fault

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Thue Janus Kristensen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Brice Goglin
> <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org <mailto:Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>> wrote:
>
>     Thue Janus Kristensen wrote:
>     > Package: xserver-xorg
>     > Version: 1:7.5+5
>     > Severity: normal
>     >
>     > I got this segmentation fault while trying to set up dual
>     screens with
>     > the radeon driver. I don't know how much sense my xorg.conf makes
>
>     It doesn't make any sense as of today. You're trying to use the old
>     Xinerama syntax. You want to use RandR1.2 instead. See
>     http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12
>
>
> I have already tried generating a config based on that HOWTO, but it
> doesn't work. Even though I have xorg.conf
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier      "ati"
>         Driver          "radeon"
>         BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
>         Option          "HDMI-0" "mon0"
>         Option          "DVI-0"  "mon1"
> EndSection

It should be "Monitor-HDMI-0" instead of "HDMI-0" and so on.

Or just remove these lines and rename your monitor section's identifier
from "mon0" to "HDMI-0" and so on.

If the wiki page isn't clear enough, please let me know.

> The KDE tool doesn't seem to work. See attached screenshots, generated
> with the same xorg.conf. I can't drag anything in the first
> screenshot. (Fair enough if you say this is not your problem)

I know some colleagues of mine use it and they seem happy with it. I
don't use KDE so I can't help you. Feel free to open a kde bug about that :)

Brice