trying to get radeon 7000/VE (rv100 qy) running with two nearly same displays (one digital, one analog connection), I tried a lot of things. One thing I stumbled upon were sudden crashes (pc did not react any more, no Zap, no SwitchVT, no SysRQ, no PING) which happened when running with - one screen / device section - two monitors (dvi + vga) attached - with radeon-device section containing mergedFB "off" CRT2Position "RightOf" MergedXinerama "off" it worked with Option "MonitorLayout" "TMDS, NONE" and it crashed repeatedly with Option "MonitorLayout" "TMDS, CRT" # epm -qa | grep -ie xorg xorg-x11-7.1 xorg-server-1.1.0 xorg-docs-1.2 # (my apologies for the modelines, cfg, extension modules etc. - the were left over from previous testing...) # grep -vEe '^[[:space:]]*(#.*)?$' /etc/X11/xorg.conf (cut, comment too long, see full attachment) Portage 2.1_rc4-r4 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6/vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16-suspend2-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-suspend2-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.1 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r1 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.0.0_rc1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /lib/rcscripts /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="de en fr" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa apache2 arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt cups curl dri dvd eds emboss encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmap mmx mmx2 motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openssh pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection sdl session spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd theora truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis xml xml2 xmlrpc xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev input_devices_joystick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_vmmouse input_devices_void kernel_linux linguas_de linguas_en linguas_fr lirc_devices_com1 userland_GNU video_cards_radeon video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_mga video_cards_nv video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vmware" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS # X -logfile /root/Xorg.0.log.$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S) -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf ... (started via ssh-session, but lines already overwritten in buffers - anyone wants to know the last lines that came through from stderr?) # head -n 50 /root/Xorg.0.log.20060613-171807 _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/pcnocmdb2.webde.local:0 _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6 X Window System Version 7.1.0 Release Date: 22 May 2006 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.16-suspend2-r6 i686 Current Operating System: Linux pcnocmdb2.webde.local 2.6.16-suspend2-r8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 7 13:48:13 CEST 2006 i686 Build Date: 07 June 2006 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (++) Log file: "/root/Xorg.0.log.20060613-171807", Time: Tue Jun 13 17:18:07 2006 (++) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (==) ServerLayout "simple layout" (**) |-->Screen "Screen 0" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "Generic Monitor 0" (**) | |-->Device "radeon 0" (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse1" (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard1" (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/CID/" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to: /usr/share/fonts/local/, /usr/share/fonts/misc/, /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/Type1/, /usr/share/fonts/TTF/, /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/, /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/ (==) RgbPath set to "/usr/share/X11/rgb" (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" (**) Option "NoTrapSignals" "off" (**) Option "DontVTSwitch" "off" (**) Option "DontZap" "off" (**) Option "DontZoom" "off" (**) Option "BlankTime" "10" (**) Option "StandbyTime" "20" (**) Option "SuspendTime" "30" (**) Option "OffTime" "60" (**) Extension "Composite" is enabled (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) (II) No APM support in BIOS or kernel # some further parts from the log: (cut, see attachment) This looks like being related to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1559 but that bug has grown really long, too long... BTW, in tests before those lockups: first I had a dual-screen setup with cloned views quite out-of-the-box, which did not satisfy me. In the following tests I had the impression that a) upon initialization of the first port, the CRTCs for both ports are initialized, b) at some later re-initialization(?) 0-values are written to crtc1 and c) the offset of one of the crtcs also changed which ended up in both displays blanking (dpms-off)... Unsure if I can reproduce this, not sure if I can invest any more time in investigating this, maybe try ati-bin-drivers or just get a better supported video card... :-/
Created attachment 89093 [details] /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Created attachment 89094 [details] one of the latest log files (successful start)
File a new bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org if you can't find a reasonable match (that bug you mention is probably not a good place to post this), then post the resulting URL here. Thanks!
tried this lately, but I'm not sure if I had the same config -- might be fixed by upstream, but I'll have to check again w/time permits.
