radeon driver: checkpoint

Erik Andrén erik.andren at gmail.com
Sun Mar 19 06:44:39 PST 2006


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I can confirm this regression on a radeon 7500 mobility using the ATI
1-0-0 branch.
Reverting to the official 7.0 fixes the issue.

Take care
Erik

Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> 
>>> I've just check out ati-1-0-branch again. And it's back to usable.
> 
> For me the ati-1-0-branch is still worse than the driver from 6.9.
> I'm using a Radeon 9200 card on an amd64 machine under OpenBSD.
> 
> The 6.9 driver works in mergedfb mode, but not in traditional multi head
> mode (with one screen per head (this used to work in 6.8.2)):  it
> produces a corrupted display on the 2nd head, or just mirror from the
> 1st, depending on the options.
> 
> With the current code from the ati-1-0-branch (copied to the monolithic
> tree and built from there, if it matters), my merdedfb setting, results
> on the 2nd screen always mirroring the 1st, although I specified
> otherwise in xorg.conf.
> 
> The dual-screen settings results in no video signal at all on the 2nd
> head, although the log file indicates that the 2nd monitor is probed
> correctly, and that it seems to setup up a correct mode for it.
> 
> xorg.conf and log files for both configurations are there:
> <http://www.herrb.com/mergedfb.xorg.conf>
> <http://www.herrb.com/mergedfb.Xorg.0.log>
> 
> <http://www.herrb.com/multi.xorg.conf>
> <http://www.herrb.com/multi.Xorg.0.log>
> 
> Thanks you for your help.
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