Intel driver and multiple grapphics cards

Tino Keitel tino.keitel+xorg at tikei.de
Wed Sep 17 09:02:20 PDT 2008


On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 01:35:47 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Tino Keitel <tino.keitel+xorg at tikei.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 09:47:27 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> Use a newer server with the bug fix in it?
> >
> > Please define "newer". Currently, I use 1.4.2. All I found are several
> > reports about that crash, and bug reports against the Intel driver.
> > There it was stated that Xinerama won't be supported anymore by the
> > Intel driver, only RandR.
> >
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10299
> >
> > However, RandR is somethat limited to ATI and Intel these days, and I
> > need it for trident.
> >
> > And even if the crash should be fixed meanwhile, does that also mean
> > that Xinerama works again with the Intel driver? That would be so nice
> > that I can't really believe it. :-)
> >
> 
> Damn I fixed this before, maybe it was in the Intel driver. I don't
> expect Intel to support
> zaphod mode again, however it shouldn't crash the server.
> 
> I'm not near my multi-headed machine to play now.

You don't need multiple heads to reproduce the crash. Just enable
Xinerama in your single head config for intel and the server crashes at
start.

Regards,
Tino



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