Still a few doubts about Zaphod and Radeon

Lawrence Statton lawrence at cluon.com
Fri May 14 19:36:56 PDT 2010


I feel that I have arrived at a fortuitous time in that Zaphod is 
(apparently) back

I'm a greybeard and I *like* each of my monitors to have it's own X 
screen (:0.0, :0.1 and :0.2) for reasons that probably make sense to 
nobody but me.

I have a IBM ThinkCentre with Intel 915 graphics on the motherboard and 
a Radeon 9000 series dual VGA PCI card.  The motherboard video is 
driving a 22" HP LCD and the Radeon is driving a pair of HP 17" 4:3 LCDs.

After a side trip into "my window manager sucks" land, and me blaming 
the good folks over at GDM for compiz (and more importantly my own) 
lossage, I now have all three displays with distinct video in a "usable 
but not quite perfect" configuration.

I'm up to two X screens, :0.0 ( the IGP video)  and the radeon card 
driving a virtual 2560x1024 frame buffer driving the other two monitors.

I saw Alex Deuchar's recent response on the list to Samud and I 
immediately tried to duplicate (as close as possible) their results, but 
without luck.

Alex writes:  "You need to add Screen 0 and Screen 1 to your device 
sections"

Is this correct?  When I tried to do this, I got a coredump

The last few lines are:
(II) Loading sub module "fb"
(II) LoadModule: "fb"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so
(II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
     compiled for 1.7.6, module version = 1.0.0
     ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
(II) RADEON(1): TOTO SAYS 00000000d0100000

Backtrace:
0: Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x3b) [0x80e937b]
1: Xorg (0x8048000+0x61c7d) [0x80a9c7d]
2: (vdso) (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) [0xb76f3410]
3: Xorg (InitOutput+0x5c8) [0x80b9c88]
4: Xorg (0x8048000+0x1ebbb) [0x8066bbb]
5: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0xb742bbd6]
6: Xorg (0x8048000+0x1e961) [0x8066961]
Segmentation fault at address 0x7200328e

Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
      at http://wiki.x.org
  for help.
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional 
information.

  ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log

I have
(II) LoadModule: "radeon"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
(II) Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
     compiled for 1.7.6, module version = 6.13.0
     Module class: X.Org Video Driver
     ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 6.0






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