FC3 upgrade broke my dual-head configuration

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Sun Nov 14 03:14:38 UTC 2004


Sean E. Millichamp wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 23:19 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
> 
>>Anyway, here is a bugzilla entry that another person entered.
>>
>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136916
> 
> 
> Thanks Jim, that does cover the system-config-display problem I was
> experiencing.
> 
> 
>>I hope an upgrade is made soon for this problem. A bug report for the 
>>ill behaviour that you are seeing might be good to submit for FC3.
> 
> 
> Yup, after trying a lot of different configuration options and doing
> some research at the X.org site and in RH's Bugzilla I decided it was
> definitely a bug.  
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138479
> 
> Sean
> 
> 


Rolling back the version of xorg-x11 sounds a bit like a major thing to 
have to do. There was a change made to at least the intel 830 card 
regarding dual-head. Whatever the changes that were made across the 
board, it looks like thwere is a lot of breakage caused by the changes 
instituted.

Jim

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