From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040809 Description of problem: I tried to setup two video cards. The first video card is part of the motherboard and is an 815 Graphics controller. The second card is a radeon 7200. The situation is that the radeon card causes lockups, so BIOS settings are set for the internal 815 card to be the primary graphics controller. The problem, the s-c-d tool will not save my information provided and always shows some backwards configuration. If the tool is ran again, all my settings are lost. The primary card is the radeon through the tool. The 815 is the secondary. Since the BIOS settings are honored and the 815 is my primary video interface, the tool thinks that I have my main display on the secondary, but it is on the primary, which is not the secondary. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set BIOS to have internal card as main video, not the pci video card 2. Boot into FC3T2 RC2 3. start X 4. Try to run s-c-d to enable dual-head display 5. adjust settings 6. save and exit 7. restart X 8. notice settings not as desired 9. Try to adjust settings, save and exit 10. restart X 11. notice cannot set display as desired 12. close down computer, pull PCI card for awhile Actual Results: If radeon is set as primary video, X will lockup machine server tries the radeon settings first, then finally tried the 815 card After entering s-c-d, the settings for the monitor and card are correct. after checking dual head, adjusted settings for secondary as radeon video on 815 low resolution 800 x 600, radeon card had garbage, but some artifacts of activity. The settings were all wrong. Expected Results: I expected a primary card as 815 w/ 1280 x 1024 resolution, 16 depth and the radeon at 640 x 480 with 8 depth (low res secondary monitor) Additional info: I have the resulting xorg.conf file to attach to the report.
Created attachment 103940 [details] This is xorg.conf from attempt to setup cards monitors
Created attachment 104236 [details] i810 primary - radeon secondary I have two troubled cards, this is trying to set the internal Intel 815 card to the main card and the radeon 7200 as secondary. I'll attach the xorg.conf file for the dual boot configuration next
Created attachment 104237 [details] this is the i810 master - radeon secondary configuration via r-c-display with this setup, I got vertical lines on the i810 driver and the radeon 7200 seened to be pulsating. There is an indicator light on the display that seemed to be trying again and again. The lockup log for xorg is available.
The previous log was substituted with the vesa driver. The radeon was in it originally. The radeon driver caused the pulsing. With the previous configuration, I got the vertical stripes on the display and the lockup.
Created attachment 104238 [details] this shows the i810 -vesa lockup This is thelog for the lockup with changing the radeon driver to vesa. The server was a mess and the log might contain information regarding the lockup
Created attachment 104239 [details] this is /var/log/messages after testing The trial was to setup xorg with the 815 card as primary display and the radeon 7200 card setup as secondary card. This failed with a pulsating lockup on the radeon display. Vertical stripes were on the secondary display. see next comments for more details.
1) remove xorg.conf then try to setup the 815 as primary and radeon as secondary. - Result: s-c-d tried radeon first, this failed, then the 815 card was tried. X started and let me configure the cards. 815 primary, radeon secondary. I then exited X and tried the new setup. (Startx and runlevel 3). This is when the lockup happened. (pulsing radeon, 815 had vertical stripes. - Cure: hard reset 2) Reboot computer, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change radeon to vesa driver. Startx and get vertical stripes. - Needed to hard reset. 3) reboot computer, change both drivers to vesa, start X. - Result: diagonal and unstable lines on the 815 display and had a blue background. The radeon card initialized and I was able to use the secondary display to perform tasks. After exiting X and observing the tty screen, only half of the font was on the screen. The font was only the top have and seemed to be trunced. The radeon display blanked out and seemed to act correctly. Finally, I changed the xorg.conf file to single mode instead of dual head. My final attachment will be the output of lspci -vvv to show hardware in this computer.
Created attachment 104240 [details] lspci -vvv This should do it. Hopefully this info is valuable. I don't mean to flood w/ invalid information. Thanks! Jim
Can you test with s-c-display 1.0.20 which has a fix to prevent reconfiguration when not in --reconfig mode.
I have system-config-display-1.0.19-0.1 installed after the latest rawhide upgrade. The problem is still here, even with single head. I'll install the newest version when located. What happened with the single head configuration is enclosed as an attachment. The pci radeon is set as secondary. The 815 card started with several tried to reconfigure the card.
Created attachment 104482 [details] This is with 815 as primary Xorg.0.log The xorg.conf file will be attached regarding the mis-configuration done by s-c-display. The Intel card was chosen as the primary card manually. This did not take. It took whatever incorrect assumption was determined by the wizard.
Created attachment 104483 [details] xorg.conf resulting from s-c-display I'll search for the version suggested and test as per request. I upgraded from rawhide, then tested, expecting s-c-display to be newer.
When trying system-config-display-1.0.20-1 I get the below results. The positive news is that the 815 card was not changed to a radeon for my promary card. The traceback happens when I selected dual-head, individual laptops and chose the radeon card for the secondary. The error is generated when I clicked on the OK, close or whatever the button states for exiting the tool. I have not tried to change the settings post earlier version reported above. I plan on skipping the dual head attempts until further advice. I will try th see if the 815 can be setup in single-head mode to test the new X version at different resolutions. Thanks! Jim Trying with card: ATI Radeon 7200 in hydrate_second Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog.py", line 125, in ok lower_hsync, upper_hsync = string.split(str(self.second_monitor_hsync), "-")ValueError: unpack list of wrong size Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog.py", line 125, in ok lower_hsync, upper_hsync = string.split(str(self.second_monitor_hsync), "-")ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
Closing this bug - the traceback is covered by you in: bug #135991