[Spice-devel] linux with multiple "monitors" issues

[David Mansfield]

On 11/10/2013 07:27 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Marc-André Lureau <mlureau at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> You may remember me as the guy who about once a month complains that
>>> multiple "monitors" simply doesn't work in linux.
>>>
>>> I have tested various configurations of centos 6, fedora 19 and fedora
>>> 20 beta as host, guest and client.
>>>
>>> Well I think I've finally made some progress which I'll thought worth
>>> reporting back.
>>>
>>> These results (below) are approximately the same on Fedora 20 beta and
>>> Fedora 19 (host+guest+client).
>>>
>>> I was trolling through the Fedora "features" (or whatever they're called
>>> now) and noticed that qxl KMS driver has made it's way into fedora.
>>> That gave me an idea: disable it!  Sure enough, things are WAAAAYYY more
>>> stable after blacklisting qxl.ko.
>> Some multiple monitor and arbitrary resolution fixes are in drm-next:
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux/log/?h=drm-next
>>
>> With f20, you may also need the mutter fix:
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711216
>>
>> For f19, it should be working with drm-next.
> Most of the fixes are now pushed into the Fedora kernel repos, I don't
> have versions for where they'll show up yet.
FYI: For F19, I'm using:

kernel 3.11.7-200.fc19.x86_64 (host + guest)
xorg-x11-drv-qxl-0.1.1-0.11.20130514git77a1594.fc19.x86_64 (guest)
spice-server-0.12.4-2.fc19.x86_64
qemu-kvm-1.4.2-12.fc19.x86_64

For F20 beta:

kernel 3.11.7-300.fc20.x86_64 (host + guest)
xorg-x11-drv-qxl-0.1.1-1.fc20.x86_64 (guest)
spice-server-0.12.4-3.fc20.x86_64
qemu-kvm-1.6.1-1.fc20.x86_64

I'll try updates-testing for F19 and see if that gets me anywhere.

I'd try the git version, but building xorg is usually a hassle and a 
half.  Are there directions on the wiki somewhere?

I'm happy to try.

Thanks,
David