Successful ruby setup and a problem

[Boszormenyi Z. <zb...@fr...>]

Hi,

my system is Fedora Core 1, running linux-2.6.3-ruby
(+ DRM-cvs-update.patch from the 2.6.4-rc1-mm2 patchset)
and I have rebuilt XFree86-4.3.0-55 with the
xf86-430-prefbusid3.diff patch.

I have a Sapphire Radeon 9200SE 128M/TV-Out/AGP8x and
a Sapphire Radeon 7000 PCI/32M/TV-Out and an MSI
K8T Neo FIS2R with an Athlon64 3200+.

I have successfully set it up as a dualhead
machine with 2 PS/2 keyboards and 2 USB mice.

This configuration is so good, even DRI works on both videocards!
Two kids can play tuxracer at once. :-)

I use the Option "PciOsConfig" "1" tweak but I don't use the
echo "1" >/proc/bus/pci/hackvideo because it stalled one of
the cards, gdm could not start it until I logged in and out
on the other at first but then this card was stalled... Strange.
So I stayed with the -prefbusid XFree86 option.

There are few things that bugs me still. Some devices
(like /dev/mixer) can only be used by the first login,
no matter which display. Changes to /etc/security/console.perms
is needed, users should be put into groups to be able to access
devices but I can handle these kinds of problems.

My main problem is that localhost:1.0 is destroyed by logging
out on localhost:0.0.

What cause this? The XFree86 patch is not enough?
I can login/logout any time I want on :1.0 without disturbing :0.0.
I have set up the two heads this way:
- PS/2 keyb. on keyboard port + Radeon9200SE (:1.0)
- PS/2 keyb. on mouse port + Radeon7000 (:0.0)
(I don't think the the order of the USB mice makes any difference)
If I change the order of displays, the effect is the same.

I will try the rawhide XFree86-4.3.0-62 (that has fixes for not accessing
the keyboard kontroller's IO ports directly) I will see if it fixes
anything but I don't think it is the problem because swapping heads
does not change things. I mean it's still :1.0 that is destroyed
when logging out on :0.0.

Maybe gdm is restarting one too many servers?
I try to look into it...

-- 
Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi

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