On Jan 29, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Alex Deucher wrote: > 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
I tried the DisplayPriority but it didn't resolve the issue. I'm thinking it's a ubuntu issue. I noticed the filemanager is attempting to load over and over again. Each time the cursor changes to a wait cursor and the desktop flashes. When the password box is displayed (black desktop) the screen is not flashing. Hopefully this will be addressed in alpha 3. -Bill _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
