No composite on 2nd screen (:1)

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Thomas Börkel <thomas at boerkel.de> wrote:
> HI!
>
> I have DRI and composite working on the first screen (:0). When I start
> another session (:1), I have no composite there and I get this error in
> Xorg.1.log:
>
> (II) [drm] DRM interface version 1.0
> (EE) [drm] Could not set DRM device bus ID.
> (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed.  Disabling DRI.
>
> When I configure kdmrc to have 2 static X servers :0 and :1 from the
> beginning, then both do not have composite and log that error.
>
> My system:
> - Gentoo
> - kernel 2.6.27
> - xorg-server 1.5.3
> - xf86-video-ati 6.10.0
> - KDE 4.2
> - RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
>
> Is that something that I can fix or workaround or is it just a known
> limitation of the driver?

It's a limitation of the current DRI infrastructure.  I will be fixed
eventually with Dave's multi-master drm bits.

Alex