[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1597437] Re: X with nouveau driver, 2 nvidia cards, 4 monitors, does not use all monitors

2017-03-09 Thread Martin
I did not re-try with your suggestions of how to get the .so file smaller. But with the original large one I built with your patch, January 13, yes it has behaved fine and all four monitors continue to work. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1597437] Re: X with nouveau driver, 2 nvidia cards, 4 monitors, does not use all monitors

2017-03-07 Thread Oleg Moiseichuk
Almost 2 months have passed since I posted the patch. Martin, if you are still tracking this bug, does this patch work stable for you? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in Ubuntu.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1597437] Re: X with nouveau driver, 2 nvidia cards, 4 monitors, does not use all monitors

2017-02-10 Thread Oleg Moiseichuk
If debugging symbols weren't disabled during compilation and the resulting file size looks intimidating you can decrease it. Run 'strip -s nouveau_drv.so' and debugging symbols will be purged completely. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1597437] Re: X with nouveau driver, 2 nvidia cards, 4 monitors, does not use all monitors

2017-01-16 Thread Oleg Moiseichuk
Martin, you've done everything well. Indeed, additional packages are needed for the successful compilation. They can be installed by the command 'sudo apt-get build-dep package_name' (there can be hefty pack, that's why I'm usually using virtual machine for the compilation and revert it to the

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1597437] Re: X with nouveau driver, 2 nvidia cards, 4 monitors, does not use all monitors

2017-01-13 Thread Martin
I can confirm that the patch in #5 works. I've tested it on the same system (updated to 16.04.1 with all current updates), same video cards, same monitors, as described in the original bug description section above. (long version:) Re #5, thanks for trying this and updating with your result!

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1597437] Re: X with nouveau driver, 2 nvidia cards, 4 monitors, does not use all monitors

2017-01-13 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1597437 Title: X with nouveau driver,

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1597437] Re: X with nouveau driver, 2 nvidia cards, 4 monitors, does not use all monitors

2017-01-11 Thread Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot
The attachment "Fixes improper handling of 3rd and 4th monitors" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team. [This is an automated message performed by a

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1597437] Re: X with nouveau driver, 2 nvidia cards, 4 monitors, does not use all monitors

2017-01-11 Thread Oleg Moiseichuk
I met with the same bug in Ubuntu 16.04.1 (amd64): 2 NVIDIA adapters with DVI and HDMI connectors on each of them, 4 identical Samsung monitors, 4th monitor is dead, 3rd is sometimes garbled, sometimes is OK. All the error messages described by Martin are the same. Luckily in #2 he provided the

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1597437] Re: X with nouveau driver, 2 nvidia cards, 4 monitors, does not use all monitors

2017-01-11 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1597437] Re: X with nouveau driver, 2 nvidia cards, 4 monitors, does not use all monitors

2016-06-29 Thread Martin
Maybe duplicate? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1381013 (While that bug is radeon driver, if the fix is the same in both drivers, this can still be considered duplicate maybe?) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1597437] Re: X with nouveau driver, 2 nvidia cards, 4 monitors, does not use all monitors

2016-06-29 Thread Martin
This Fedora bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1307204 looks to me to be the same issue, and says that the cause is 'The problem is that xorg 1.17 or 1.18 replaced "HAS_DIRTYTRACKING2" with "HAS_DIRTYTRACKING_ROTATION" in pixmap.h and the old version of xf86-video-ati still looks