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hord

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Registered: 2011-03-26

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] ATI Catalyst / Xorg issue with Multihead (3monitor)

i'm having problems for a long time, with different versions of the ATI Catalyst driver and Xorg,
right now i'm using this versions,

catalyst-hook 11.2-2
catalyst-utils 11.2-1
lib32-catalyst-utils 11.2-1
xorg-server 1.9.4.901-1
xorg-server-common 1.9.4.901-1
xorg-server-utils 7.6-2

the catalyst package are from the catalyst server recommended by the Arch Wiki
http://catalyst.apocalypsus.net/repo/catalyst/x86_64

the problem that i have is that when i try to pass from one monitor to another, when
i pass to the 3rd one the X crashes, this happen always with the same monitor no matter what.

here is the backtrace from the startx logs,

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x49f788]
1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x60349) [0x460349]
2: /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f28028b7000+0xf150) [0x7f28028c6150]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (0x7f27fecf4000+0x86ffff) [0x7f27ff563fff]
4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (0x7f27fecf4000+0x86fb5d) [0x7f27ff563b5d]
5: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x13bce2) [0x53bce2]
6: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x13be31) [0x53be31]
7: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x13a880) [0x53a880]
8: /usr/bin/X (miPointerUpdateSprite+0x18c) [0x45871c]
9: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x5892d) [0x45892d]
10: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x164266) [0x564266]
11: /usr/bin/X (mieqProcessDeviceEvent+0x172) [0x49ef52]
12: /usr/bin/X (mieqProcessInputEvents+0xcc) [0x49f08c]
13: /usr/bin/X (ProcessInputEvents+0x9) [0x469969]
14: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2cf73) [0x42cf73]
15: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2131e) [0x42131e]
16: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f2801837dcd]
17: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x20ec9) [0x420ec9]
Segmentation fault at address (nil)

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

i wanted to know if there is any official forum / bug tracker  of amd/ati where report this bug,
or if one of you had this kind of problem before and can give me a hand to resolve this, i would be grateful.

here is the ati report about the system info,
http://pastebin.com/jU73mU4W
http://ideone.com/mcISC

thanks in advance.
regards.

Last edited by hord (2011-07-10 20:26:12)

I'mGeorge

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Registered: 2011-03-23

Posts: 150

Re: [SOLVED] ATI Catalyst / Xorg issue with Multihead (3monitor)

have you tried configuring xorg for your monitors with the open source radeon driver aka xf86-video-ati Anyway if you wanna make a bug report for the catalyst driver go here http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/l … linux.aspx and scroll down for the link ATI Linux Platform Bug Reporting *

Last edited by I'mGeorge (2011-03-26 20:10:09)

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hord

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Registered: 2011-03-26

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] ATI Catalyst / Xorg issue with Multihead (3monitor)

solved!

since the cursor used through the proprietary catalyst driver have issues, use instead the SW cursor,

Section "Device"
...
Option "SWCursor" "true"
...
EndSection

[0] http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=86
[1] http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=117
[2] http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.p … post209030

Last edited by hord (2011-07-10 20:25:23)