Bug#580955: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Only one screen working on my dual-screen setup

[Brice.Goglin]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:36:52PM +0200, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 09:13:22AM +0200, Matthieu Baechler wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> > Version: 1:6.13.0-1
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: sid
> > 
> > For a long time now, radeon driver has been unable to use my second screen.
> > For xrandr, the screen is working properly, but it remains black.
> > 
> > For this reason, I use the radeonhd driver that, despite it's weaknesses,
> > manage to get my two screen to display my desktop.
> > 
> > But since KMS is enabled by the last linux kernel, radeonhd display strange
> > things on my screens, and is no longer usable.
> > 
> > It's also interesting to know that KMS has the same problem than the radeon
> > driver : as soon as it's loaded, only one screen displays console output.
> > 
> > Conclusion is : I can't use my dual-screen setup on the current sid, which is
> > pretty sad.
> > 
> 
> Don't use radeonhd with KMS, radeonhd doesn't support KMS and only
> bad thing can happen. Did you opened a bug about your issue ?
> Best is to open a bug against KMS.

Matthieu,
does this still fail with latest 2.6.32-5 or 2.6.34 kernel?
Brice