ATI Drivers report bogus dot_clock to xvidtune

[Alex Deucher]

On 29 Mar 2006 00:53:21 -0500, Greg Stark <gsstark at mit.edu> wrote:
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> "Alex Deucher" <alexdeucher at gmail.com> writes:
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> > what version of Xorg are you using?  can you post your log?  There
> > were quite a few problems with the radeon driver in 6.9/7.0 that have
> > been fixed in cvs.
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> X Window System Version 6.9.0 (Debian 6.9.0.dfsg.1-5 20060320141153 David Nusinow <dnusinow at debian.org>)
> Release Date: 21 December 2005
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> Sure, though as I said it seems from X's point of view everything is working
> properly. It's just that the card isn't enabling the vga output.
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There are some major bugs in the dualhead handling in xorg 6.9/7.0. 
I'd strongly suggest cvs HEAD or the ati-1.0-branch. you can also grab
binary snapshots for x86 here:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Download#head-55420c59a1c2e9a70f07a6fa02f0d228ffb87b76

Alex

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> > > [*] I can't figure out what controls which output is "Screen 0". It seems the
> > > LCD panel is whichever screen is listed first in the ServerLayout whether
> > > that's Screen 0 or Screen 1.
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> > Screen 0 is the first crtc (lvds or internal tmds, or DAC). Screen 1
> > is the second crtc (DAC or external tmds).
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> That wasn't what seemed to be happening. When I switched Screen 0 and Screen 1
> around so Screen 1 was the first Screen listed in the layout the LCD panel
> switched to Screen 1. Or maybe I just managed to confuse myself.
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> --
> greg
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