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[Kehan Harman <kehanharman@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've just upgraded to the xorg in the intel-gfx-testing ppa, and the
problem still persists - ie compiz really garbles most of the screen,
and even with it turned off fonts start degrading over time eventually
becoming black squares. I find this works best when setting gnome font
rendering to Monochrome as in the attached screenshot
(System>Preferences>Appearance).

I've also attached my Xorg log file just for reference.

Thanks for this.
Kehan


On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 02:35 +0000, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> [This is an automatic notice.]
> 
> We'd like to forward your bug upstream, however upstream requires
> that you first test it against their newer driver code.
> 
> To save you the effort of building the driver from source, we've built
> packages for the driver and its new dependencies.
> 
> So you have a couple options:
> 
>  1.  Download and test .debs for intrepid, from:
>      https://edge.launchpad.net/~intel-gfx-testing/+archive
> 
>  -or-
> 
>  2.  Download and test the Jaunty alpha-2 (or newer) Live CD,
>      (which includes a beta of the new xserver 1.6 as well).
>      See http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/9.04/ for ISOs
> 
> 
> Thanks ahead of time!  You can simply reply to this email to report your
> findings.
> 
> 
> P.S., if you wish to forward your bug upstream yourself, please follow
> these directions to do so:
>   http://intellinuxgraphics.org/how_to_report_bug.html
> 
> 
> ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
>        Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
> 


** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20633826/Xorg.0.log

** Attachment added: "Screenshot-Appearance Preferences.png"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20633827/Screenshot-Appearance%20Preferences.png

-- 
dualhead with "gnome-display-properties" on MacBook 4,1 does not work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289566
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Support, which is the registrant for Mactel Support.

Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-intel

Hardware:

~$ sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name
MacBook4,1

Linux: Ubuntu 8.10 RC

A dualhead configuration with xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.4.1-1ubuntu10 does not work. I have tested it with "gnome-display-properties", from gnome 2.24.


I used three different xorg.conf, but none of them
lead to a real split screen configuration:


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

1.) The default xorg.conf after installation:

[CODE]

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

[\CODE]

If the external monitor is not plugged in,
the default conf will set the resolution to the native
value "1280x800".

If the external monitor is plugged in, it
will set the resolution to "1023x768" for both monitors
and clone the screen.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

2.) The configuration from the gnome-display-properties tool:

[CODE]

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
	SubSection "Display"
		Virtual	2048 768
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

[\CODE]

This works very buggy. The monitors have different resolution, but
its not possible to drag the mouse from one monitor to the other.
Also, the second monitor never gets a refresh, so all output
stays forever on the screen.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

3.) I tried to write my own configuration:

[\CODE]

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device1"
        Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen1"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor1"
	Device		"Configured Video Device1"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device2"
        Screen 1
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor2"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen2"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor2"
	Device		"Configured Video Device2"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
        # singlehead
        #screen "Default Screen1"
        # dualhead
        screen 0 "Default Screen1" 0 0
        screen 1 "Default Screen2" rightof "Default Screen1"
	#Option   "Xinerama" "On"
        Option "Clone" "Off"
EndSection

[\CODE]

It didn't work with "screen 0" and "screen 1". It could only clone
the displays.

Regards,
beauman