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Re: external monitors and bumblebee

 

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Tomáš Janoušek <lis@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 01:50:12AM -0700, Jardi Martínez wrote:
> > terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
> >   what():  screenclone.cc:78 display
> > Aborted
>
> This means that connection to one of the displays can't be established.
> Make
> sure you have you xauth cookies right.
>
> > Also when I run this command:
> >
> > xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto --output VIRTUAL --mode 1440x900 --right-of
> LVDS1
> >
> > I get logged out and I have to log back in. I also noticed that
> apparently
> > bbswitch didn't get installed, isn't it supposed to install automatically
> > when I install bumblebee?
>
> And this means X crashes whenever you try to use the virtual crtc and
> output.
> There should be a backtrace somewhere in /var/log/Xorg.log.something,
> assuming
> your distro keeps history of Xorg logs.
>
> I checked in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and I didn't see any errors there.
I also checked the .xsession-errors file, and I couldn't see anything
related to the crash.

>From what I've heard, the patch for intel driver 2.18.0 works flawlessly
> with
> 2.18.0 and 2.19.0.  Are you running one of those versions?  We know that it
> crashes on 2.20.* and I have a fixed patch which I haven't tested but I've
> heard it fixes those crashes.  Let me know if you want to test it.
>
> I'm running 2.19.0 and yes I would like to test 2.20 with your patch to
see if it works for me.

Thanks,
Jardi.

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