On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 05:57:27PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Friday 06 May 2005 12:02 pm, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
We're pretty puzzled, because there doesn't seem to be anything being loaded/stated in the second config that isn't in the first.
It's like there is something in the first config that initialises the card correctly (or in your case the 2nd output of the card) which is missing in the 2nd config...personally I thought that card initialisation was a BIOS job but maybe you have to do it for different resolutions or something.
What is the mad part is that the first config *shouldn't* work, and causes XFree86 to segfault (according to the logs) the config I conjured up by hand which should work doesn't until the first config has been run and segfaulted XFree86, in that segfault obviously something happens to the card which makes it run later on. After 3 hours of trying to make this work I got a bit of a headache and we gave up for the time being, at least she has a workaround for now to make the dual head work :)
I think this situation would be perhaps best investigated at a kit meet in the future where multiple observers can look for weird behaviour.
Adam