From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: X hangs completely when a dual head with spanning is configured with ATI Radeon 7000 and certain keys are pressed eg ctrl-alt-F1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-6.8.1-23.EL/2.6.9-5.EL How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure two screens with spanning on ATI radeon 7000 2. Press Control + alt + F1 3. Actual Results: The screen hangs and keyboard and mouseare unresponsive. Can only be broken - if at all - from a logging in via another machine. I have verified this is the case on two machines, one a Dell Precision 330, the other Precision 340. The screens were a pair of Dell 1702 FPs in the one case and 1802 Fps in the other on digital connections. Expected Results: Prssing ctrl-alt-F1 should give a virtual terminal Additional info: There is not much in messages consistently when the error occurs. Sometimes there is nothing logged at all. The problem goes away if the dual head is removed and a single head used instead. The same hardware worked as expected with RHEL 3. Running system-config-display as non root also seems to cause a hang although I have not double checked this.
Please attach the X server log file and config file from the configuration that fails with Xinerama.
See http://dil-gbrowse.cimr.cam.ac.uk/systems/Xorg.0.log and file below # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display # (deleted commented paragraphs to save space Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Multihead layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1" Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore" Option "Xinerama" "on" Option "Clone" "off" EndSection Section "Files" # RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "unix/:7100" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "dri" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "Xinerama" "true" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # Identifier "DevInputMice" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Dell 1702FP (Digital)" HorizSync 30.0 - 80.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor1" Ven dorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Dell 1702FP (Digital)" HorizSync 30.0 - 80.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" # Option "MergedFB" "false" # Option "CRT2Position" "RightOf" #Option "UseFBDev" "true" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "radeon" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "ATI Radeon 7000" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard1" Driver "radeon" VendorName "Videocard Vendor" BoardName "ATI Radeon 7000" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Screen 1 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Videocard1" Monitor "Monitor1" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Group 0 Mode 0666 EndSection
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Yes these new packages fix the bug!! Many thanks for this geoff
Ok, thanks for the good feedback! These fixes will be in RHEL4 U1, and might be in an asynchronous update before then too perhaps. Setting status to "PROD_READY". Will be automatically updated when the update is officially released. Thanks again for testing.