I should have made it clear that the problems I am having are with the voodoo card and not with the radeon.
Also I should add that I have booted into windows and verified that the hardware works correctly. This is the output of startx: xauth: creating new authority file /home/robert/.serverauth.11075 X Window System Version 7.0.0 Release Date: 21 December 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0 Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.15-gentoo-r1-reiser4-suspend2 i686 Current Operating System: Linux zebedee 2.6.15-gentoo-r1-reiser4-suspend2 #23 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jun 19 18:16:48 PDT 2006 i686 Build Date: 16 June 2006 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Jun 19 19:51:57 2006 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (EE) Failed to load module "v4l" (module does not exist, 0) (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found (EE) TDFX(1): Cannot read V_BIOS (EE) TDFX(1): Cannot read V_BIOS Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/default, removing from list! waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. Robert 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. > > I tried the noaccel option, but that made no useful difference (I merely > got a few warning messages). > > I have tried using alternative drivers, but I can't get any to work for me. > I had thought that vesa was a generic driver that should work on pretty > well anything, but it doesn't work here. The log says "chipset vesa not > found". fbdev doesn't work either. I tried vga, but that caused an instant > system lock-up. > > What should I do to get a working 2-head setup? > > And when I have got it working, would there be any advantage in emerging > xorg-drm, in terms of making up for the performance shortfall between the > radeon driver and fglrx? -- Robert Persson That's MISTER Scum to you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list