ati driver dual head 2nd monitor incorrect resolution

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Tue Oct 12 09:39:51 PDT 2004


On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:31:10 -0700 (PDT), John H. <mistamaila at yahoo.com> wrote:
> this is not on a radeon mobile, if that matters.  it's
> a 9600se.
> 

I suspect all chips are affected.  

> Here is my entire xorg.conf.

one last thing, try removing the monitorlayout option from your
"Card1" device section.  I doubt it'll help, but you never know.

As an alternative, you could backup your radeon_drv.o and drop in the
one from xorg 6.7.  that one should work.

Alex

> 
> I am just wanting to get big desktop mode, with crt
> having 1600x1200, and lcd having 1024x768, without
> scrolling, that's all:(  LCD is attached to DVI port
> with vga->dvi adapter.
> 
>  Section "ServerLayout"
>          Identifier     "X.org Configured"
>         Screen          0 "Screen0" 0 0
>         Screen          1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
>          InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>          InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "ServerFlags"
>     Option "Xinerama"
> EndSection
> 
>  Section "Files"
>          RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
>          ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
>          FontPath     "unix/:7100"
>  EndSection
> 
>  Section "Module"
>          Load  "record"
>          Load  "extmod"
>          Load  "dbe"
> #         Load  "dri"
>          Load  "glx"
> #         Load  "xtrap"
> #         Load  "freetype"
> #         Load  "type1"
>          Load  "GLcore"
> #        Load  "ddc"
> #         Load  "bitmap"
>          Load  "vbe"
>  EndSection
> 
>  #Section "Extensions"
>  #       Option "Composite" "Enable"
>  #EndSection
> 
>  Section "InputDevice"
>          Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>          Driver      "kbd"
>          Option "XkbRules"   "xfree86"
>          Option "XkbModel"   "pc105"
>          Option "XkbLayout"  "us"
> EndSection
> 
>  Section "InputDevice"
>          Identifier  "Mouse0"
>          Driver      "mouse"
>          Option      "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
>          Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
>        #  Option "Buttons" "5"
>          Option "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
>       #  Option "EmulateWheel"  "1"
>       #  Option "EmulateWheelButton"  "4"
>        #  Option "EmulateWheelInertia"  "10"
>  EndSection
> 
>  Section "Monitor"
>          #DisplaySize      360   270     # mm
>          Identifier   "CRT"
>          VendorName   "CTX"
> 
>      HorizSync   30-95
>      VertRefresh 50-160
>         Option      "DPMS"
>  EndSection
> 
>  Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier  "LCD"
>     HorizSync   30-61
>      VertRefresh 56-76
>      Option "DPMS"
>  EndSection
> 
>  Section "Device"
>          Identifier  "Card0"
>          Driver      "radeon"
>          VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
>         BoardName   "RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]"
>          BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
>          Screen      0
>         option "monitorlayout" "crt,crt"
>  EndSection
> 
>  Section "Device"
>          Identifier      "Card1"
>          Driver          "radeon"
>          BoardName       "RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]"
>         Screen          1
>         BusId           "PCI:1:0:0"
>         option "monitorlayout" "crt,crt"
>  EndSection
> 
>  Section "Screen"
>           Identifier "Screen1"
>           Device     "Card1"
>          Monitor    "CRT"
>        DefaultDepth    24
>           SubSection "Display"
>                   Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024"
> "1024x768" "800x600"
>                  Depth     24
>           EndSubSection
>   EndSection
> 
>   Section "Screen"
>           Identifier "Screen0"
>           Device     "Card0"
>           Monitor    "LCD"
>         DefaultDepth   24
>           SubSection "Display"
>                   Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>                   Depth     24
>           EndSubSection
>   EndSection
> 
> 
> #Section "DRI"
> #       Group        0
> #       Mode         0666
> #EndSection
> 
> 
> --- Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:24:04 -0700 (PDT), John H.
> 
> 
> > <mistamaila at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > no good.  Doesn't seem to work.
> > >
> > >  Section "Device"
> > >          Identifier  "Card0"
> > >          Driver      "radeon"
> > >          VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
> > >         BoardName   "RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]"
> > >          BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
> > >          Screen      0
> > >         option "monitorlayout" "crt,crt"
> > >  EndSection
> > >
> > >  Section "Device"
> > >          Identifier      "Card1"
> > >          Driver          "radeon"
> > >          BoardName       "RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]"
> > >         Screen          1
> > >         BusId           "PCI:1:0:0"
> > >         option "monitorlayout" "crt,crt"
> > >  EndSection
> > >
> > >
> >
> > hmmm... regular dualhead may be broken on some
> > chipsets do to bugs in
> > the new display handling code.  I would have though
> > the monitorlayout
> > option would force it to work but I guess it may
> > not.
> > http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1559
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > >
> > > --- Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:06:21 -0700 (PDT), John
> > H.
> > > > <mistamaila at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > > ok, with current xorg.conf, as you can see
> > from
> > > > log,
> > > > > the 19 inch crt is not even listed.
> > > > >
> > > > > the fp is connected to dvi port on radeon 9600
> > via
> > > > vga
> > > > > adapter->dvi(it's an analog monitor)
> > > > >
> > > > > here is log
> > > > >
> > > > <snip>
> > > > > (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 -- DVI-I
> > > > >  DAC Type  -- TVDAC/ExtDAC
> > > > >  TMDS Type -- Internal
> > > > >  DDC Type  -- DVI_DDC
> > > >
> > > > It's failing to detect the secondary monitor and
> > > > thus disabling
> > > > dualhead.  try it again with this option:
> > > > option "monitorlayout" "crt,crt"
> > > > that will force the driver to use both ports.
> > > >
> > > > Alex
> > > >
> > >
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