Odd ATI + Xorg behavior

[John Jawed]

Ok, I commented out my nvidia sections completely and ran X. It still showed 
the distortion with the two LCD's on the ATI card.

I'm going to unplug the nvidia card out of the board altogether and see what 
happens then.

Regards

On 6/19/05, Yuri van Overmeeren <Yuri.vanOvermeeren at reston.demon.nl> wrote:
> 
> John Jawed wrote:
> 
> >I've spent about 3 days trying everything I could think of getting my 
> setup
> >to work. I have 3 monitors, one CRT, and 2 LCD's. The 2 LCD's are hooked
> >into my AGP ATI Radeon 9800 PRO via the DVI and CRT slots. My CRT is 
> hooked
> >up via my Nvidia 440 PCI card.
> >
> >What I was hoping to achieve was one desktop that spanned all three 
> screens.
> >I am having issues with the LCD's on my ATI card. Basically, they end up
> >looking like this:
> >
> >http://www.johnjawed.com/abstract/Screenshot-1.png
> >
> >Now, I know it is not a hardware issue, because in Windows, there is no
> >distortion or artifacting. Here is my xorg.conf as well:
> >
> >http://www.johnjawed.com/abstract/xorg.conf
> >
> >Regards,
> >john
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> The screenshot looks like a memory problem, since it's not hardware it
> could be a bug in the driver (something's writing to wrong mem
> locations/corrupting it?)
> 
> Xorg.conf seems ok, have you tried using only Ati dual displays and not
> using the nvidia card/driver, maybe we can narrow it down to a problem
> between the two drivers.
> 
> good luck :)
> 
> yuri
>