Comment 116 for bug 292214

I still can not work on this bug. I have a brand new machine, with 3 ATI Radeon cards, dual head each, and i frequently got X freese, or kernel panics. It depends on the driver and the conf. Even using X 1.7 and Mesa 1.4 does not help.

Amongst other problems, I don't what are the required features at the kernel level. Some people mentioned about VGA_ARB ... and KMS, ut i do not understand if they are required, recommended, or discouraged.

I don't know which kind of kernel is required, and which driver is apropriate to help debuging this (ATI, radeon, radeonhd, fglrx ...)

Of course, I still have crashes, and rarely got logs.

I am ready for more tests, but don't know what to do. So many factors impact ...

I have two working conf ATM:
- two heads on the first card
- one head per card, can only mouse the mouse from :0 to :1, and then from :1 to ;2 . Never can move it back.

In either case, the monitor report the resolution to be 1024x768 when i asked for 1280x1024 (monitor can display 1280, but X claims that EDID stuff do not say so). ATM, the best way to have two cards or 2 monitors working is to downgrade to X 1.4. 1.4 does what is in the conf, or shout about what's wrong. 1.5 1.6 and 1.7 just crash, don't report problems, and are sensible to many factors (mesalib, sdllib, kernel conf ... ).

And I did not find any tuto about how to do things.