From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 24 14:11:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A86B16A403 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:11:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6236543D4C for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:11:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GRUhc-0001o9-0r for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:11:28 +0200 Received: from c-24-147-85-158.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.147.85.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:11:28 +0200 Received: from jdarnold by c-24-147-85-158.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:11:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jonathan Arnold Date: 24 Sep 2006 07:10:01 -0400 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <86irjd8qra.fsf@PCBSD.localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-147-85-158.hsd1.ma.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Sender: news Subject: Dual Monitor problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:11:38 -0000 I'm using FreeBSD 6.1 (by way of PC-BSD 1.2) and I'm trying to get my ATI x850 card to work with dual monitors. I have the xorg.conf set up correctly (see my blog post on the long hard battle to get that beachhead secured here: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000744.html ) but now I've run into further resistance and I can't seem to work around it. Soon after I get running using the dual monitors, the whole machine just freezes. This always happens, and usually while KDE is putting up its tip dialog box. I've tried using a different window manager (like fluxbox) but that didn't seem to help. Soon after logging in, the whole machine freezes solid. Anything else I can try? What sorts of things can I tweak? I run just fine if I don't do that dual monitor thing. You can see more or less what my xorg.conf file looks like on my blog post. I don't see any errors anywhere, including Xorg.0.log or .xsession-errors, or anything else in /var/log. The whole machine just freezes up. -- Jonathan Arnold Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD blog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog