From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FsYc6-0002OH-Jp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:17:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5K5FbAr009483; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:15:37 GMT Received: from priv-edtnes90.telusplanet.net (defout.telus.net [199.185.220.240]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5K5A0r9025384 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:10:01 GMT Received: from priv-edtnaa06.telusplanet.net ([154.20.66.11]) by priv-edtnes90.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.04 201-2131-123-105-20051025) with ESMTP id <20060620050959.SDQR1406.priv-edtnes90.telusplanet.net@priv-edtnaa06.telusplanet.net> for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:09:59 -0600 Received: from zebedee (d154-20-66-11.bchsia.telus.net [154.20.66.11]) by priv-edtnaa06.telusplanet.net (BorderWare MXtreme Infinity Mail Firewall) with ESMTP id 052ANNWKBK for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:09:59 -0600 (MDT) From: Robert Persson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] can't get xorg tdfx driver to work any more Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:10:15 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <200606191325.47530.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> <200606192037.38035.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200606192037.38035.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606192210.15549.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k5K5A0r9025384 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k5K5FbBA009483 X-Archives-Salt: 1f1dcd3b-8de5-40c5-8046-cb10d3e7c19b X-Archives-Hash: 87283523ec08a755a82e352720643661 FYI, I have a workaround. Set the primary video device to PCI in the bios= . I=20 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 becaus= e I > > needed to use the proprietary ati driver. Now I need to revert to usi= ng > > 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 kern= el > > 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 radeo= n > > 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 blac= k > > lines, with the occasional flicker =A0on the left hand side when some= thing > > 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 u= se > > (perhaps 20 minutes) the display locks up irrecoverably, but I am abl= e to > > restart gracefully from a remote terminal session. --=20 Robert Persson That's MISTER Scum to you. --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list