ATI Radeon 7500 Mobile (On Dell 5100) with External Monitor

[Jon Trulson]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, bob franken wrote:

>> From: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
>> 
>> On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:26:25 -0500, bob franken <zonyl at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > > > Enabling the MonitorLayout allows the LCD to show up when the ext
>> > >monitor is
>> > > > displayed, however, I still get no video on the ext monitor.   At a 
>> high
>> > > > level, I am just trying to use my ext monitor (NEC: G90FB) with my
>> > >laptop
>> > > > (in clone mode) when docked.
>> > > >
>> > > > new config (with MonitorLayout and MergedFB enabled):
>> > > > http://www.sharpee.com/xorg.conf.merged
>> > > >
>> > > > new out:
>> > > > http://www.sharpee.com/mergedfb.out
>> > > >
>> >
>> > Is there some sort of power saving code in xorg that tries to determine 
>> if
>> > an external monitor signal is not seen to power down the port?
>> 
>> no.  the port should be enabled if you force the monitor type.
>> 
>> >
>> > It runs dual headed in Windows and under AccelX,  is there a utility I 
>> can
>> > run to dump the registers of the video controller and compare with that
>> > under xorg?
>> 
>> http://www.botchco.com/alex/radeon/mergedfb/cvs/DRI/hy0/radeon_dump.tgz
>> 
>
> Getting AccelX to run dual head was a little touchy this time around, but I 
> eventually got it working for the dump.
>
> Here are my dump results ( AccelX is able to display dual head, X org is not 
> )
>
> No X running, bootup in non-fb console mode:
> http://www.sharpee.com/b4.txt
>
> AccelX Summit 2.2
> http://www.sharpee.com/accelx.txt
>

 	Glad we were able to help...

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