Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-xorg (15 mails)

[Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter

Sounds like one of the following known bugs

  #441070 - mga: Xinerama broken since xorg-server 1.5 (G450/G550)
  #210988 - mga: Xserver hangs in int10 with two DH Matrox G550 cards

No solution known at the moment. :-(

Stefan

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:45:04PM +0100, Peter Riess wrote:
> Hi Gurus ;-)
>
> I updated my Athlon/1.2 1G Dual Screen SuSE 11.0 to 11.1 last Weekend
> and Twinview or Clone when activated with SaX2 caused a signal 11 when
> testing the new configured xorg.conf.
>
> Before the update the configuration worked fine. The used hardware is a
> Matrox MGA G400 AGP with two HP monitors HP A4033A and HP A4331A, which
> are relatively tolerant with the frequencies.
>
> Single screen works fine. But dual scren does not work at all. I even
> tried a complete new installation to verify wether an update problem
> could have caused the problem. But even this did not work.
>
> I always get the error message that I have to look in
> /var/log/Xorg.99.log and here I see at all tried screen modi either bad
> mode clock/interlace/doublescan or hsync out of range or no mode of this
> name or width too large for virtual size.
>
> At the end of this log file is then
>
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11. Server aborting
>
> The version of the used X-server is 1.5.2
>
> I tried it only with the SaX2 GUI to create the twinview (xinerama) or
> cloned dual head configuration.
>
> I hope someone is able to tell me whether I'm doing wrong or a magic
> keyword is missing or a known or unknown bug is preventing to use the
> twinview screen usage.

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