[Bug 11156] New: MergedFB: Second head still scrolls despite having enabled "MergedNonRectangular"

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           Summary: MergedFB: Second head still scrolls despite having
                    enabled "MergedNonRectangular"
           Product: xorg
           Version: 7.2
          Platform: x86 (IA32)
               URL: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-xfree86/2007-
                    Jun/0001.html
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Driver/Radeon
        AssignedTo: xorg-driver-ati at lists.x.org
        ReportedBy: lenz at grimmer.com
         QAContact: xorg-team at lists.x.org
                CC: sndirsch at suse.de


I have an IBM Thinkpad T42 with a 1400x1050 internal screen connected to an ATI
Mobility Radeon 9600 M10 GPU (RV350), which I previously used in a dualhead
configuration with an external Samsung SyncMaster 920T TFT screen. I enabled
MergedFB with a "1400x1050-1280x1024" MetaMode and this setup worked well.

Now I replaced this external display with another Samsung flatscreen: a
SyncMaster 940BW, which is a wide-screen display with 1440x900 pixels. I added
this new resolution to the Screen section and added an appropriate MetaMode for
MergedFB: "1400x1050-1440x900".

The X server (X.org 7.2 on an openSUSE 10.2 installation, xorg-x11-7.2-146.7)
initially did not accept this mode with the following message:

(WW) RADEON(0): Mode "1440x900" is not a supported mode for CRT2
(WW) RADEON(0):         (Skipping metamode "1400x1050-1440x900")

The second head was then driven with a lower resolution (1024x768). I was able
to resolve this problem by manually adding a matching mode line to the Modes
section:

  Modeline  "1440x900" 106.5 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 903 909 934

This finally enabled the correct resolution on the second head. You can see the
detailed history of this issue in the openSUSE xfree86 Mailing list (see the
URL field added to this report) - not sure if it's worth a separate bug report
(as I think the server should have detected the appropriate resolution via DDC
itself).

However, I now face one remaining problem: as the vertical resolution on the
external display is lower than the one on the internal panel (900 vs. 1050
pixel), the screen on the second head now scrolls up and down when I move the
mouse over the upper or lower screen border. Which is strange, as this did not
happen when using the previous monitor (which had 1024 pixel vertically, which
is still less than the 1050 of the internal one).

According to the radeon man page this should be fixed be enabling the
MergedNonRectangular option, which I already had included in the configuration
before:

  Option       "MergedNonRectangular" "true"

Unfortunately the screen still scrolls, which is slightly annoying and I
consider this a bug, given that it worked with the other display. The xorg.conf
and X log file is attached. Let me know if you need any additional info!
Thanks.


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