Re: [gentoo-user] can't get xorg tdfx driver to work any more

[Robert Persson]

FYI, I have a workaround. Set the primary video device to PCI in the bios. I 
don't know why this works, but it's enough to get by with at least.

Robert

On Monday 19 June 2006 20:37 Robert Persson was like:
> On Monday 19 June 2006 13:25 Robert Persson was like:
> > A while ago I had a working 2-head setup which I stopped using because I
> > needed to use the proprietary ati driver. Now I need to revert to using
> > the twin-head setup, but I can't get it to work any more.
> >
> > I have the same xorg.conf as before. What has changed is that I have
> > upgraded to xorg-7. It is also likely that I did something to my kernel
> > config to get the fglrx driver to work properly, but I can't remember
> > what exactly. I get confused about this because the various
> > display-related kernel options are scattered all over the place.
> >
> > The setup basically consists of an agp radeon 9200SE (using the radeon
> > driver) and a pci voodoo banshee (using the tdfx driver).
> >
> > The precise manifestation of the problem changed with the recent bump
> > from xorg-server-1.0.2-r4 to xorg-server-1.0.2-r5.
> >
> > Before the bump I got a screen that was the right overall colour, but
> > with ugly incomplete horizontal lines across it. Windows were
> > recognisably windows, but still heavily garbled. Within half an hour or
> > so I would have complete system lock-up.
> >
> > After the bump I now get a screen composed of horizontal red and black
> > lines, with the occasional flicker  on the left hand side when something
> > happens on the desktop. The only thing that is barely recognisable is the
> > mouse pointer, which looks like a white bar-code. After a period of use
> > (perhaps 20 minutes) the display locks up irrecoverably, but I am able to
> > restart gracefully from a remote terminal session.

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Robert Persson
That's MISTER Scum to you.

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