About xinerama support of x.org with ATI IGP 340M

[Paul Kaplan]

Not to rain on your parade...I tried this fix on xorg 6.9 cvs (~Aug this year) 
on Mandriva with an ATI M7 7500 and could never get Xinerama to work.  I 
stayed with 6.8.2.

On Thursday 15 December 2005 01:12 am, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On 12/14/05, Eddie Cao <eddie.cao at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am a debian user. I recently bought a LCD display, which I intended to
> > use as an external display for my laptop (HP NC4000 with IGP 340M). I've
> > read some articles about dual-head set-up on the web. The problem is that
> > it works flawlessly on XFree86 in debian testing, but not on X.org in
> > debian testing. X.org complains that it "Failed to detect secondary
> > monitor, MergedFB/Clone mode disabled". Here is a part of the output of
> > diff between xorg.log and XFree86.log (diff Xorg.log.0 XFree86.log.0):
>
> Add this line to the device section of your config to force both displays
> on: option "monitorlayout" "lvds, crt"
>
> Alex
>
> > 23c534,536
> > < (II) RADEON(0): EDID data from the display on port 1
> > ----------------------
> > ---
> >
> > > (II) RADEON(0): Displays Detected: Monitor1--Type 2, Monitor2--Type 1
> > >
> > > (II) RADEON(0): Monitor2 EDID data ---------------------------
> >
> > 59a573
> >
> > > (II) RADEON(0): End of Monitor2 EDID data --------------------
> >
> > 61,74c575,918
> > < (II) RADEON(0): Primary:
> > <  Monitor   -- CRT
> > <  Connector -- VGA
> > <  DAC Type  -- Primary
> > <  TMDS Type -- NONE
> > <  DDC Type  -- VGA_DDC
> > < (II) RADEON(0): Secondary:
> > <  Monitor   -- NONE
> > <  Connector -- Proprietary
> > <  DAC Type  -- TVDAC/ExtDAC
> > <  TMDS Type -- NONE
> > <  DDC Type  -- NONE
> > < (II) RADEON(0): PLL parameters: rf=2700 rd=60 min=12000 max=35000;
> > xclk=13300
> > < (WW) RADEON(0): Failed to detect secondary monitor, MergedFB/Clone mode
> > disabled
> > ---
> >
> > > (II) RADEON(0): Primary Display == Type 2
> > > (II) RADEON(0): Panel ID string: 1024x768
> > > (II) RADEON(0): Panel Size from BIOS: 1024x768
> > > (II) RADEON(0): BIOS provided dividers will be used.
> > > (==) RADEON(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> > > (II) RADEON(0): Validating modes on Primary head ---------
> > > (II) RADEON(0): Total number of valid DDC mode(s) found: 0
> > > (II) RADEON(0): Valid mode using on-chip RMX: 1024x768
> > > (II) RADEON(0): Total number of valid FP mode(s) found: 1
> > > (--) RADEON(0): Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024)
> > > (**) RADEON(0): *Mode "1024x768": 65.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0 MHz), 48.4
> >
> > kHz, 60.0 Hz
> >
> > > (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "1024x768"   65.00  1024 1040 1176 1344  768
> > > 770
> >
> > 776 806
> >
> > > (**) RADEON(0):  Default mode "640x350": 65.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0
> > > MHz),
> >
> > 48.4 kHz, 60.0 Hz
> >
> > > (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "640x350"   65.00  640 1040 1176 1344  350 770
> >
> > 776 806
> >
> > > (**) RADEON(0):  Default mode "640x400": 65.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0
> > > MHz),
> >
> > 48.4 kHz, 60.0 Hz
> >
> > > (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "640x400"   65.00  640 1040 1176 1344  400 770
> >
> > 776 806
> >
> > > (**) RADEON(0):  Default mode "720x400": 65.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0
> > > MHz),
> >
> > 48.4 kHz, 60.0 Hz
> >
> > > (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "720x400"   65.00  720 1040 1176 1344  400 770
> >
> > 776 806
> >
> > > (**) RADEON(0):  Default mode "640x480": 65.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0
> > > MHz),
> >
> > 48.4 kHz, 60.0 Hz
> >
> > > (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "640x480"   65.00  640 1040 1176 1344  480 770
> >
> > 776 806
> >
> > > (**) RADEON(0):  Default mode "800x600": 65.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0
> > > MHz),
> >
> > 48.4 kHz, 60.0 Hz
> >
> > > (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "800x600"   65.00  800 1040 1176 1344  600 770
> >
> > 776 806
> >
> > > (**) RADEON(0):  Default mode "832x624": 65.0 MHz (scaled from 0.0
> > > MHz),
> >
> > 48.4 kHz, 60.0 Hz
> >
> > > (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "832x624"   65.00  832 1040 1176 1344  624 770
> >
> > 776 806
> >
> > > (==) RADEON(0): DPI set to (75, 75)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Eddie
> >
> >
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