From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 19 21:16:39 2005 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 74A6816A41C for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 21:16:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from johnjawed@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 257DA43D4C for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 21:16:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from johnjawed@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so345517wri for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 14:16:38 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=pGDbwARBX8vtC/NFEK+YuoMCzPEW3SwugVok0QL6e6iTf5e1CseNc1Yd8K9yXs9paFW1zAfBw90cU8LU/IPn/sDrNT8xKVdhWVSk1qhpQ35ayao1LSpXrfYxl+J2nhBP5y8FqHFaxzQTU/pHn9ZqfRxpu4izqAUcBkBXRyGuVKE= Received: by 10.54.150.2 with SMTP id x2mr2155548wrd; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 14:16:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.132.10 with HTTP; Sun, 19 Jun 2005 14:16:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 14:16:38 -0700 From: John Jawed To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 References: <42B5D2FF.4030807@reston.demon.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Odd ATI + Xorg behavior X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: John Jawed List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 21:16:39 -0000 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 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 =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 >