On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Bill Conner <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 21, 2010, at 7:39 PM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: > >> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Bill Conner wrote: >> >>> I've been fighting with get a ATI FireMV 2400 PCIE for several days now and >>> I've reached a dead end. I was hoping someone has already resolved my issue >>> or can point me in the right direction. >> >> I have a 2400 MV with only two working heads. I've been following the >> issue moderately closely. However, I'm no expert on xorg in general. >> >>> Environment details >>> Ubuntu 9.10 >>> 2.6.31-18-generic >>> xorg-server 2:1.6.4-2ubuntu4.1 >>> >>> The 2400 is a quad-head board with two M24 chips appearing on separate PCI >>> slots. In my case 0:5:0:0(primary) and 0:6:0:0 >>> >>> The server has no issue in auto detect mode with the primary M24 and it's >>> dual heads perfectly. The problem is getting the server to recognize the >>> second M24. It sees the card but it fails to load: >> >> The problem is, when xorg was refactored to use/create libpciaccess, >> no-one was testing for support of multiple graphics chips, and it got broken >> along the way. This has now been fixed, but only in version 1.7. You will >> need to upgrade to version 1.7 before it will work. >> >> I haven't personally gotten around to installing 1.7 myself. I plan >> to do this in May. I'm on Fedora 11, and I'd have to upgrade to Fedora 12 >> (or >> go through a lot of hassles recompiling half the stuff on my system). I'm >> waiting for F13. A quick skim of ubuntu-related information reveals that >> you're on Karmic, which is the latest release. I was unable to determine >> what >> version of xorg is going to be used in Lucid. That's the advantage of >> Fedora; >> it's already had an xorg 1.7-using version out for months. It seems to me >> your options are: >> 1. Stick with what you have as dual-head >> 2. Recompile xorg yourself, which I regard as a vast undertaking (but I'm >> no xorg expert) >> 3. Start using Fedora, the most up-to-date distro around ;) >> >> Of course, I could've missed another option there. >> >> Note, also, that I don't promise that xorg 1.7 will work, but I do >> know that if you ask questions here, the experts will say "upgrade to 1.7". >> >> HTH, >> > > Thanks for the info. You're right the newer versions of xorg have the > multihead support fixed (sort of). > I installed Ubuntu 10 alpha 2. Only two screens came up on auto configure but > Xorg -configure generated a working xorg.conf with both chips. > > Now a new issue has appeared. The two heads on the primary interface flash > periodically. I remember reading another post somewhere about this issue.
Might be underflow to the display controller. Does: Option "DisplayPriority" "HIGH" in the device section(s) of your config help? Alex _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
