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From: Michel Dänzer <daenzer@relog•ch>
To: "W. Taylor Holliday" <wtholliday@ucdavis•edu>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: XFree 4.0 dual monitor on AGP G4
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:26:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3906E062.EB20B459@relog.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3905E436.124D745E@ucdavis.edu


"W. Taylor Holliday" wrote:

> I modified the config file you sent me to use the secondary monitor only
> (since XFree wouldn't parse the dual monitor layout section),

Dang, gotta look at the syntax for the Layout Section again :)

BTW you can quickly choose a Screen Section with the -screen command line
option.


> and unfortunately the kernel still crashed. Right now trying to get
> both monitors working is getting ahead of myself - i'm first shooting to get
> the secondary one working alone.

Very sensible.

> Unfortunately, the XFree86 4.0 docs say that PCI id's are mandatory for
> dual-head configs.

So? You have specified them.

> Oh and it dies before it writes to the logfile. So I have no clue what to do
> next. Suggestions?

- remount (at least) the partition containing /var/log in sync mode (to get at
  least something from the log)

- run X with -probeonly


Michel


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  reply	other threads:[~2000-04-26 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-04-24  6:16 XFree 4.0 dual monitor on AGP G4 W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-25 11:23 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-25  9:27   ` W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-25 16:51     ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-25 18:30       ` W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-26 12:26         ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2000-04-26 13:54           ` Kostas Gewrgiou
2000-04-26 14:16             ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-26 16:53             ` Ryuichi Oikawa
2000-04-26 17:02               ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-28 16:37                 ` Ryuichi Oikawa
2000-04-25 17:22     ` Michael Schmitz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-04-26 19:45 W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-27 11:10 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-27 13:35   ` Kostas Gewrgiou
2000-04-27 13:57     ` Kostas Gewrgiou
2000-04-27 15:23     ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-26 19:51 W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-26 20:05 ` Michael Schmitz
2000-04-26 22:54 W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-27 13:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2000-04-28  0:42 W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-28  6:06 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-28  0:51 W. Taylor Holliday
2000-04-28  6:09 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-04-28  7:47   ` Michael Schmitz

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