[ltp] Re: T60, X300, fglrx, XVideo freeze in dock

[Michael Baumann]

On Friday 17 November 2006 21:48, you wrote:
> I am having problems with my T60 (ATI X300) when using the fglrx driver in
> Ubuntu dapper or edgy.
>
> Whenever I use the notebook closed in the dock with an external monitor
> connected (no matter if DVI or CRT) and try to create an XVideo surface
> (playing a video, starting DOSbox with XVideo output, etc.) the Xserver
> freezes completely.
> When the notebook is open (i.e. when using two heads, the internal panel
> and the external monitor) XV works fine. The problem appeared with version
> 8.28, 8.27 still worked.

to answer myself, in case someone will have the same issue:

The xorg.conf line:
Option         "OverlayOnCRTC2" "1"

was the reason for the hangup. When the notebook is closed in dock there is 
only one head left and the driver handles this situation not that gracefully.

Regards,
Michael

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