Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 14:16:38 -0700 From: John Jawed <johnjawed@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd ATI + Xorg behavior Message-ID: <a9eb35850506191416a0a231@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <a9eb358505061913553f14b44@mail.gmail.com> References: <a9eb358505061909183d813f01@mail.gmail.com> <42B5D2FF.4030807@reston.demon.nl> <a9eb358505061913553f14b44@mail.gmail.com>
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Arghhhhhhhhh! Ok I removed the nvidia card, reconfigured X and everything works like a=20 charm! There has to be a driver incompatiblity in X for my setup. Now...I= =20 guess my options are to switch from the "ati" driver to the "radeon" driver= ,=20 and possibly from the "nv" driver to the "nvidia" driver. Any input would be appreciated. On 6/19/05, John Jawed <johnjawed@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 > Ok, I commented out my nvidia sections completely and ran X. It still=20 > showed the distortion with the two LCD's on the ATI card. >=20 > I'm going to unplug the nvidia card out of the board altogether and see= =20 > what happens then. >=20 > Regards >=20 > On 6/19/05, Yuri van Overmeeren <Yuri.vanOvermeeren@reston.demon.nl>=20 > wrote:=20 > >=20 > > John Jawed wrote: > >=20 > > >I've spent about 3 days trying everything I could think of getting my= =20 > > setup=20 > > >to work. I have 3 monitors, one CRT, and 2 LCD's. The 2 LCD's are=20 > > hooked > > >into my AGP ATI Radeon 9800 PRO via the DVI and CRT slots. My CRT is= =20 > > hooked > > >up via my Nvidia 440 PCI card. > > > > > >What I was hoping to achieve was one desktop that spanned all three=20 > > screens.=20 > > >I am having issues with the LCD's on my ATI card. Basically, they end= =20 > > up > > >looking like this: > > > > > >http://www.johnjawed.com/abstract/Screenshot-1.png=20 > > > > > >Now, I know it is not a hardware issue, because in Windows, there is n= o > > >distortion or artifacting. Here is my xorg.conf as well: > > > > > > http://www.johnjawed.com/abstract/xorg.conf > > > > > >Regards, > > >john > > >_______________________________________________ > > >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebs= d.org > > " > > > > > > > > > > > The screenshot looks like a memory problem, since it's not hardware it > > could be a bug in the driver (something's writing to wrong mem > > locations/corrupting it?)=20 > >=20 > > Xorg.conf seems ok, have you tried using only Ati dual displays and not > > using the nvidia card/driver, maybe we can narrow it down to a problem > > between the two drivers. > >=20 > > good luck :) > >=20 > > yuri > >=20 >=20 >
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