reassign 451972 xserver-xorg-core forcemerge 443274 451972 thank you
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 04:16:55PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati > Version: 1:6.6.193-3 > Severity: serious > > sid's xserver-xorg-video-ati (and also in experimental) no longer > supports MergedFB. Thus, it is no longer possible to address the two > ports without RandR. > > Since RandR is incompatible with Xinerama, and RandR 1.2 does not > yet support multiple cards (RandR supposedly will), the new ATI > driver thus breaks all Xinerama setups which use more than one > graphics card. > > I know RandR is the way to go, but I am still filing this bug for > posterity. I also made it RC because I don't think that this version > should become part of stable. Instead, RandR 1.3 should enter stable > so that multihead continues to work as before, without serious > regressions. Actually, this is a problem in the X server, not in the driver. Intel already has the same "feature" in testing for 6 months, but Xserver 1.4 seems to expose it more than Xserver 1.3 for some reason. As soon as you have one board with a RandR 1.2 driver, you can't use any other board, even if its driver is different and does not support RandR 1.2. It just crashes the server. I am merging with the exiting relevant bugs (which are also RC). Now, when is RandR 1.3 going to happen? I did not see many changes regarding this so far. And apart from several nice and well supported RandR 1.2 drivers, there are a bunch of other ones that will be probably remain broken for multi-head until somebody port them to RandR 1.x. All this kind of sucks... Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
