Bug 4340

Summary: xcomposite does not work on dual screen
Product: xorg Reporter: keyhan hadjari <khadjari>
Component: Lib/otherAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: high    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description keyhan hadjari 2005-09-02 05:09:43 UTC 
X Window System Version 6.8.2 (Ubuntu 6.8.2-56 20050901063948

I have a system  with nvidia quadro graphics card connected to 2 screens. I have
tried to get xcomposite running on Suse 9.1, 9.3 and Ubuntu hoary and now Ubuntu
breezy all with the same result. the moment I call xcompmgr all the windows
vanish, on SuSe I could see the shadow of the windows but not themselves, on
Ubuntu I do not even see the shadows.

In SuSe the X would get unstable at times so that I could not use keyboard so I
had to ssh from another pc and change the runlevel to 3 (It did not help if I
killed X) and then back to 5 so that X would start again.

I have not seen any documents about dual display not being supported on dual
screens so I assume it is a bug.
Comment 1 keyhan hadjari 2005-09-02 05:11:05 UTC 
Created attachment 3153 [details]
my xorg.conf file
Comment 2 keyhan hadjari 2005-09-02 05:14:53 UTC 
This is the printout from the shell where I start the xcompmgr:
~/work$ xcompmgr
error 9 request 157 minor 4 serial 4829
error 9 request 157 minor 4 serial 4839
error 9 request 157 minor 4 serial 4849
error 9 request 157 minor 4 serial 4859
error 9 request 157 minor 4 serial 4869
error 9 request 157 minor 4 serial 4879
error 9 request 157 minor 4 serial 4889
error 9 request 157 minor 4 serial 4899
Comment 3 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:27:53 UTC 
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
Comment 4 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 2011-09-26 14:43:42 UTC 
Is this still an issue with modern deliverables?

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