Subject: Re: (ATI video + AMD64 specific?) hard hangs while experimenting with XFree86 settings
To: None <port-amd64@netbsd.org>
From: Anne Bennett <anne@porcupine.montreal.qc.ca>
List: port-amd64
Date: 01/18/2006 09:22:07
theo borm <theo_nbsdamd@borm.org> writes:

> As it turns out, having both  video-card outputs connected at the same
> time is what causes the crashes, and in this respect it does not matter if
> monitors are TFT or CRT or if they are switched on at all, and the exact
> point where X dies (fiddling with I2C and DDCs) makes me quite certain
> that (al least my) problems are radeon driver related.

For the record, I'm using the vesa driver, my graphics card has no DVI
output so I'm using the analog output, and the monitor, in case it
matters, is an Acer AL2416W.


Anne.
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