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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Nvidia problem
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:27:25
Message-Id: pan.2005.07.27.16.23.03.58397@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Nvidia problem by "Michal Žeravík"
1 Michal Zeravik posted <42E7A2F5.2050604@×××××××.com>, excerpted below,
2 on Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:06:29 +0200:
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4 > Primary card is controlled by nvidia module, secondary with nv driver. A
5 > shame, composite crashes after run xcompmgr. I have modified xorg.conf
6 > (v6.8.2-r2) following steps on gentoo-wiki.org.
7 >
8 > So the problem is in xorg xinerama code?
9
10 It would appear so... since even running the same native xorg driver (ati
11 radeon) on both outputs of the same card, I have issues with composite and
12 xinerama. I was only able to get it to work when I ran a single instance
13 of the driver in merged-framebuffer mode, covering both monitors. Even
14 then, it failed at first, because I had forgotten to turn xinerama off,
15 even tho it had nothing to do because there was only one framebuffer. It
16 only worked (and worked well enough to impress me, I might add), once I
17 turned xinerama off, by commenting the line that turned it on.
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21 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
22 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in
23 http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html
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